BELA petition leads to eight-week High Court stay on Cox’s Bazar beach road construction

On 2 September 2026, the High Court Division imposed an eight-week injunction halting all activities related to the construction of a 1.6-kilometre road by Cox’s Bazar Municipality within the Ecologically Critical Area (ECA), No-Development Zone, and protected tourism area of Cox’s Bazar Sea Beach. Alongside the injunction, the Hon’ble Court also issued a Rule upon…

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Letter to FIFA regarding Bangladesh Football Federation’s plan to build a training facility on protected forest land in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Letter to FIFAStatementsVideosPress ConferenceNews Coverage Letter to FIFA regarding Bangladesh Football Federation’s plan to build a training facility on protected forest land in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.   Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has recently announced its plans to establish a new residential training facility in the Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar District, in South-East Bangladesh on…

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Evaluation of the EIA for the 2X600 MW Ultra Super Critical Coal Fired Power Project, Phase-2, (Unit 3/4) at Matarbari, Moheshkhali Upazila, Cox’s Bazar District by Mark Chernaik, Staff Scientist of ELAW (PART 5, 6)

The EIA Does Not Disclose that the Proposed Power Plant’s Emissions of Air Pollutants Would Violate Japanese Ambient Air Quality Standards and Result in Excess Premature Mortality   The proposed Matarbari 2X600 MW Ultra Super Critical Coal Fired Power Project, Phase-2, (Unit 3/4) project has been financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with…

Mirzapur Lead Extraction

Mirzapur is anupazila in Tangail district. A part of it is covered by forest. In mid-2018, we had identified something is not going right in the deep forest. Hence, some of our employees paid a field visit to Azgana, Torofpur, Gorai and Bashtoil unions to see actually what was happening.   Surprisingly, they found that…

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