A facility for keeping orphaned or abandoned elephants following their rescue is planned inside the Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram under the Elephant Conservation Project.

A forest crested lizard, its vivid red eye and distinctive spines catching the light, clings to a tree trunk in Chattogram’s Anwara. Native to South and Southeast Asia and southern China, the species inhabits dry deciduous, coastal and moist evergreen forests, living both on the ground and among trees and low vegetation.

A bronze-winged jacana watches over two fluffy chicks amid floating vegetation at Mathiura Tea Estate in Moulvibazar’s Rajnagar.

Jahangirnagar University campus is home to 12 amphibian and 22 reptile species, a recently published study has found.

Study highlights importance of wetlands, woodlands and croplands

A common coot sprints across a wetland in Feni, wings raised as its lobed feet kick up a trail of spray.

A ruddy kingfisher takes flight from a tree cavity in the Sundarbans, heading out to find food for its chicks waiting inside.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER… Two black-crested bulbuls pause in shallow water at Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram’s Fatikchhari.

Nestled on the seabed in the Bay of Bengal off Saint Martin’s Island, this solitary orange cup coral, likely Balanophyllia, opens like a flower, its ridged cups revealing the hard skeleton beneath.

Officials say the pair are eating well and adjusting with other elephants after undergoing health checks

All released in ponds and a canal

Forest Department takes the elephants back over alleged breaches of conditions set when they were returned to their owners

Forest officials say more deer are being seen, but no new survey has confirmed population growth

Deep inside Sonarchar Wildlife Sanctuary, wild buffaloes move through coastal forest and swamp land on an island in the Bay of Bengal. But their numbers are shrinking fast, as poachers continue to target the animals despite repeated drives, arrests and criminal cases.

A female cotton pygmy goose sweeps over Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram’s Fatikchhari.

The elephants were kept at Gazipur Safari Park; owners pledge not to abuse them again

A rhesus macaque mother cradles her sleepy infant among rain-washed leaves in Fatikchhari’s Hazirikhil Wildlife Sanctuary.

One had been undergoing treatment for injuries, while the other had long suffered from a bacterial infection

Perched on a leaf in the Kaptai forest, this fruit fly is far more than a tiny forest resident.

A pair of chestnut-headed bee-eaters perched gracefully on a branch inside Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram.