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The indiscriminate use of gillnets by fishers in Bangladesh has become a major threat to the two freshwater dolphin species found there: the Ganga River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) and the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris). Both species, listed as threatened by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, are found in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest […] ....
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Cox’s Bazar Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 28 Jul 2021 10:35 AM BdST Updated: 28 Jul 2021 12:48 PM BdST Five children belonging to the same family were killed in their sleep after landslides caused by heavy rainfall swept away their home in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Upazila, while an elderly man was also killed in a separate landslide in Moheshkhali. ); } The incidents occurred in Pankhali Villager Para of Nhilla Union and the Bajuar Ghona area of Moheshkhali’s Hoanok Union. The dead have been identified as Abdus Shukkur, 16, Mohammad Jubayer, 12, Abdul Latif, 10, Kohinur Akhter, 14, and Zainab Akhter, 8, who were all killed in Teknaf, and Ali Hossain, 80, was killed in the Moheskhali incident. ....
Watermelon turning fallow land lively in Khulna Workers tending saplings in a watermelon field in Katianagla village of Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila. The scrumptious summer fruit is being cultivated on about 3,407 hectares of land in the district this year. Photo: Star Only about ten to twelve years ago, thousands of acres of land in Khulna would remain uncultivated after the harvesting of Aman rice, but growing of watermelon there did not cross the farmers minds. In course of time, the scenario has changed and a growing number of farmers in the district are cultivating watermelon on the unused land in the hope of making a quick buck. ....