Bdbusinessdaily.com – The High Court of Bangladesh issued an eight-week injunction on 2 September, freezing all construction activity tied to a 1.6-kilometre road project that Cox’s Bazar municipality had planned along the coastline. The order covers an area simultaneously designated as an ecologically critical zone, a no-development corridor, and a reserved tourism belt — a triple classification that underscores how tightly the stretch of shore is already protected under domestic law. Within days of the ruling, the decision attracted praise from the United Nations, signalling that the court’s environmental reasoning resonated well beyond Dhaka’s own legal community.

Cox’s Bazar, situated in Bangladesh’s southeasternmost district, fronts what is widely described as the world’s longest natural unbroken beach. The sandbar stretches for dozens of kilometres along the Bay of Bengal, supporting mangrove fringes, nesting seabird colonies, and the livelihoods of fishing communities that have depended on the adjacent waters for generations. Because…