Experts call for urgent leopard conservation efforts in Bangladesh

The Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca), locally known as chitah bagh in Bangladesh, is mostly found in the northern and northwestern region of the country, where they often fall victim to conflicts with humans. Most leopards have always been found in the northern districts close to Bangladesh’s border with India —

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Lika Chakma, 37, sways she can still remember her childhood days when the springs in the Digholchari Hajachara area of eastern Bangladesh, where she grew up, flowed year-round. These perennial water bodies supported not only the lives and livelihoods of the communities in the region, but also diverse fish and

Saudi implements mega projects to provide unforgettable experience to pilgrims

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the custodian of the Islamic faith's two holiest sites, Makkah and Madina, is ushering in a new era of religious enlightenment. Several mega projects have been initiated to reinvent the experience of the millions of pilgrims that flock to Makkah and Madinah every year. In recent

Trafficking, habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s hoolock gibbons

On Oct. 8 this year, police in Bangladesh recovered an endangered western hoolock gibbon from a passenger bus in the Chunati area of the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway. They also arrested two suspected wildlife traffickers, who were later convicted in court and sentenced to a year in prison and fined 10,000

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes

Khalilur Rahman, 65, has been fishing in a tributary of the old Brahmaputra River in Kishoreganj for 50 years. Nowadays, he often returns home empty-handed. “The river has dried up. Without enough flow of water, many species of fish have disappeared,” he said. Khalilur said when he was young, the Brahmaputra had