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📰 Did you KNOW in our country we Grow Orchids on the Hill Tracks with Price Ranging from 100 to 10,000 Tk?
👉 According to the latest RESEARCH on ORCHID Diversity in BANGLADESH, done by Botanist Professors at the University of Chattogram, have found around 200 species from 72 Genre!

🤔 Can you IMAGINE how painful it is to know that ORCHIDS are Sold by WEIGHT at a very CHEAP Rate at Hill Markets?
👉 The TRADERS bring the Load by Trucks and RE-SELL them by Number. The PROFIT is often a Thousand-Fold!
👉 According to a Conservationist who Works in the Hill Tracts, he is worried about the Rampant, LARGE-SCALE ORCHID Extraction.
👉 He said, ''Orchids are seriously threatened here. The booming trade is finishing them off,''
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It was a winter morning at the Lawachara National Park in Moulvibazar. I was following a stream, with heavy photographic equipment digging into my shoulders with every passing moment.

Suddenly, I heard a growl in the distance. A hairpin bend in front of me was blocking my sight.
''It could be some cats fighting,'' I guessed. My heartbeat and my pace sped up in tandem.

With each stride, the noise became louder. I sneaked past the bend and peeked to my left. I saw two fishing cats mating by the sandbed next to the pond. Their love-making produced a strange hooting sound.

The two cats saw me as I took the camera off my shoulder, and they disappeared into the forest. I failed to capture a photo of their mating, but I managed to capture the moment of their escape.

As a wildlife photographer, I felt immensely lucky to have been able to witness the mating of these rare animals in the wild, even though it was only for three seconds.

To read the full article visit:
https://www.tbsnews.net/environment/nature/fishing-cat-no-tiger-600406