Abu Siddique

Contributing Editor, Bangladesh

About

Abu Siddique is an Environmental Journalist and Knowledge Management expert. He currently serves as Bangladesh’s Contributing Editor for Mongabay.com. He formerly worked with BRAC’s Climate Change Programme as a Senior Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist. Additionally, he has worked for several top national dailies, including The Business Standard, the Daily Sun, and the Dhaka Tribune. Apart from these, Siddique wrote for thethirdpole.net (Currently Dialogue Earth) and Climate Home News as a freelancer for several years. He has traveled to the nation’s most remote regions in search of stories. He obtained his Master’s in Project Management from Northeastern University, Toronto, in 2023 and his Certificate in Environmental Reporting from the International Institute for Journalism, Berlin, in 2012.

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The male elephant that recently died in Rangamati.

Rise in elephant killings reveals conservation gaps in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 7 May 2026
A worker separates the plastic covers from recovered wires from dismantled ships in Chattogram.

The digital graveyard: Is Bangladesh becoming China’s e-waste back door?

Sajibur Rahman 5 May 2026
A farmer in south-central Bangladesh uses an axial flow pump to irrigate his rice field.

Bangladesh struggles to choose between food security & stable groundwater table

Abu Siddique 30 Apr 2026
Hasina Begum stands in front of her house that got destroyed in multiple flash floods occurring in 2022. She temporarily moved to the industrial town of Narayanganj to earn the money needed to repair the house and to make up for the loss of crops. Image by Masud Al Mamun.

Migration and climate pressures deepen flood risks in Bangladesh’s haors

Ashraful Haque 29 Apr 2026
Of the 500 timber species growing in Bangladesh, boilam is one of the tallest. Image by Mohammad Minhaj Uddin.

Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 14 Apr 2026
Bharardaho Beel shelters hundreds of water birds and other wildlife around the year. Image by Md Mehedi Hasan.

How an engineer brought degraded wetlands back to life in drought-hit Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Apr 2026
Cucumbers growing on a bamboo frame in Bangladesh.

New farming method replaces traditional jhum in crowding Bangladesh hills

Sifayet Ullah 25 Mar 2026
A healthy private agar plantation in Sujanagar, Moulvibazar.

Planters stranded amid degraded forests as Bangladesh agarwood scheme falters

Ashraful Haque 17 Mar 2026

Climate-resilient housing models slow to gain ground in disaster-prone Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 16 Mar 2026
A fisher holds up two stingrays from his catch.

Bangladesh sees rise in ray, shark fishing as traditional seafood species dwindle

Khadijatul Kobra 12 Mar 2026

Profitable cash crop trend in Bangladesh’s hills affects regional ecology

Abu Siddique 26 Feb 2026
Election officials wait to collect election materials at Dhaka Residential Model college on the eve of national election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 11.

Bangladesh’s political parties share manifestos, leave environmentalists frustrated

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Feb 2026
Fishermen and birds coexist in harmony on almost all mudflats of coastal Bangladesh.

Is South Asia becoming inhospitable for migratory birds?

Sadiqur Rahman 21 Jan 2026
A worker carries coal in buckets to burn bricks at a brick field in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Brickmaking keeps eating farmland as Bangladesh misses clean-build goal

Abu Siddique 2 Jan 2026
A fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus).

Fishing cats need hotspot-based conservation in Bangladesh, research shows

Sadiqur Rahman 19 Dec 2025
A spectacled cobra in India.

Rapid urbanization, habitat loss are forcing the snakes out in Dhaka

Tasmin Era 17 Dec 2025
A looper moth (Biston suppressaria) in Assam, India.

Warmer climate triggers pest infestations in Bangladesh, India tea estates

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Dec 2025
Workers at BRAC's plastic project sort out single-use plastics.

New ventures set out to tackle the plastic choking Bangladesh’s ECAs

Abu Siddique 2 Dec 2025
Farmers gather at Bhimruli guava market for selling their produces.

Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall

Sadiqur Rahman 20 Oct 2025
A teenage mahout and his elephant in Bogura, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans to rehabilitate captive elephants in the wild

Abu Siddique 16 Oct 2025

Indigenous Khasis struggle to sustain forest-based livelihoods in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Sep 2025
Hoolock gibbons in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh retreating from development activities planned in forest lands

Abu Siddique 27 Aug 2025
AnIndian pitta (Pitta brachyura)

Can rainwater-fed ponds revive Bangladesh’s hilly streams?

Sadiqur Rahman 1 Aug 2025
Most of the lightning strike victims tend to be farmers and fishers.

Study links surge in lightning disasters in Bangladesh to transboundary air pollution

Mahadi Al Hasnat 11 Jul 2025
Year-round, the Katakhal carries pitch-black water to the Akhaura locality. A fisher sets up his fishing net.

Bangladeshi village grapples with contaminated water flowing in from India

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 3 Jul 2025
A female elephant with her calf on agricultural land in northeastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans new ‘protected area’ for elephants in its conflict-prone northeast

Abu Siddique 18 Jun 2025
Bulborox orchid

Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants

Abu Siddique 12 Jun 2025
Areca leaves and plates.

With areca leaves and rice bran, Bangladesh replaces single-use plastic tableware

Abu Siddique 30 May 2025
Locals worship an old banyan (Ficus benghalensis) tree in Narayanganj district.

Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation

Abu Siddique 23 May 2025
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025
The rescue team carries a deer rescued from an artificial amusement park.

Bangladesh cracks down on illegal wildlife captivity — but what happens after?

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 6 May 2025
Lotus plants grow in abundance in the wetlands of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh starts a sustainable luxury fashion journey with lotus ‘silk’

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 30 Apr 2025

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