The National Committee to Save the Sundarbans (NCSS) yesterday accused Unesco of failing to protect the outstanding universal value of the mangrove forest by endorsing an SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) that lacks scientific clarity and giving the government one more year to place its long-term plans to protect it.

The Bangladesh government will get another year to fulfil all the conditions placed by the World Heritage Committee (WHC) of Unesco on preparing a long-term plan to save the Sundarbans.

It is impossible to adequately describe the exhilaration upon spotting a Scarlet Minivet inside the forest. High up in the canopy, where you have to squint to discern between branches and leaves, a flash of bright red darts from leaf to leaf and branch to branch like a mirage. You squint harder, shaking your head, thinking you are imagining things. As if reading your mind it sits still for a second to convince you it is real. Then it takes off. You think it is gone but wait... freezing mid-flight it hovers to check under a leaf where it finds a juicy larva. And then it flies away for good, leaving you asking yourself, “What did I just see?”

A radio-collared tiger in the Sundarbans travelled nearly 100km in four months before crossing over to the Bangladesh part of the mangrove forest, India’s West Bengal Chief Wildlife Warden VK Yadav was quoted today as saying.

Tasmanian Devils have been born in the wild of Australia's mainland for the first time in more than 3,000 years, a conservation group said, with seven newborns raising hopes the endangered animals can sustain a new breeding population.

Three dead dolphins, with injury marks on their bodies, have been found at different points of Kuakata sea beach recently.

Forest fires are still burning in Sarankhola Range of the Sundarbans.

After 30 hours of frantic efforts, the fire at the Sundarban’s (East Forest Range) Sharankhola Range was extinguished around 5:00pm yesterday.

Around 340 doves and 60 pigeons died after consuming poison-laced bird food in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat.

A slow loris, locally known as "Lojjaboti Banor", has been rescued in Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila.

An elephant was found dead in Eidgah area of Cox's Bazar today.

A woman died after a herd of wild elephants trampled her to death in her lemon garden at Joldi union of Bashkhali upazila in Chattogram this morning.

The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for a halt to the sale of live wild mammals in food markets to prevent the emergence of new diseases such as Covid-19.

A day after a whale carcass washed ashore at Himchhari beach in Cox’s Bazar, another whale corpse was found at the beach.

A whale carcass washed ashore at Himchari beach in Cox's Bazar this morning.

Coast Guard personnel have recovered six geckos, more popularly known as Takshak, during a drive in Manikkhali village under Barguna’s Patharghata upazila and detained one person in this connection.

Police recovered the body of a Nilgai -- the largest antelope in Asia -- from Khochpara village in Atwary upazila of Panchagarh this afternoon.

The decomposed body of an elephant was found in a forest in Cox’s Bazar.

A team of Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) rescued 37 turtles from Tinmatha area of Bogura town this morning.

The forest department has recovered a dead dolphin from a shoal of Bhola River adjacent to the Sundarbans.