For generations, coastal families living near the Sundarbans have depended on shrimp farming, fishing, timber cutting, and ...

Locals say that every year, the water gets saltier, the flooding gets worse, the cyclones more violent and the tigers closer. ‘I had my back to the forest when the tiger pounced and dug its claws into ...

Approximately 1,874 square kilometres of the forest consist of rivers, canals and wetlands, creating a dynamic ecosystem that ...

When global leaders gathered in Brazil for COP30 to discuss the future of forests, Bangladesh did not need reminding why ...

On March 13, the Bangladesh forest department tagged satellite transmitters on two saltwater crocodiles for the first time in Asia and released them in the Sundarbans waters. So far, four saltwater ...

Robbery and armed criminal activities in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, have intensified in recent ...

The Bangladesh government's ban on access to the Sundarbans forest has left those who earn their living from the world’s largest stretch of mangroves in hardship amid a lack of promised compensation.

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In a conversation with Mahfuz Russel, renowned naturalist Nigel Alan Marven discusses the challenges and successes of wildlife conservation in one of the world’s most densely populated countries.

A recent fire in the eastern Sundarbans of Bangladesh has highlighted the rising risk of burning in the world’s biggest mangrove forest. The Bangladesh government says it’s drawing up guidelines to ...

Panchanan Dolui, who lives on Mousuni Island in the Indian Sundarbans, has shifted homes three times due to floods and river erosion. Each time he moves further from the shrinking edge to avoid ...