Forest

1,000 endangered plants in Bangladesh being listed
Environment

1,000 endangered plants in Bangladesh being listed

The government has taken steps to develop a strategic management system to save the local plants, as well as the country’s forest resources from the harmful effects of aggressive foreign trees

Demands made to protect rights of forest-dependent people
Bangladesh

Demands made to protect rights of forest-dependent people

Photo: BSS/AFP
Environment

World lost 100 million hectares of forest in two decades: UN

Photo: Sayam U Chowdhury
Environment

Save the forests for the future

Photo:TBS
Environment

As forests fall silent, footsteps recede

Land-grabbers build houses, markets in reserve forest
Top News

Land-grabbers build houses, markets in reserve forest

High Court: Cancel land leases granted to shipyards in protected forests
Court

High Court: Cancel land leases granted to shipyards in protected forests

Ramgarh Sitakunda Reserve Forest in Chattogram. Photo: TBS
Environment

Ramgarh Sitakunda reserve forest at stake

Photo: Current Biology
Environment

Scientists may have found world’s oldest forest

Forest shower
Long Read

Forest shower

Growing and tending of bonsai takes a lot of patience, labour and time. Photo: Mumit M
Features

A bonsai forest in the city

Firefighters battle a wind-driven wildfire in Sylmar, California, US, October 11, 2019. Reuters/Gene Blevins
World+Biz

Pair of California wildfires destroy homes near Los Angeles

Firefighters try to extinguish forest fires at Sebangau National Park area in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, September 14, 2019. Reuters/Willy Kurniawan
Environment

It's not just the Amazon: Indonesia urged to stop deadly fires