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Environmental protection is an important global issue. Due to continuous environmental pollution, climate change, among other things, has become a serious threat to the survival of life on earth. For a long time, environmentalists around the world have been trying to draw the attention of world leaders to environmental pollution and other environmental issues. The first conference on the human environment was held in Stockholm in 1972. Following this, the World Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. Along with the environmental problems of the world, Bangladesh is a vulnerable country in regional and geographical terms. There are thousands of local problems in the country. Bangladesh is constantly facing natural and man-made environmental problems. Among the environmental problems, the issues discussed in Bangladesh are overpopulation and poverty. Other environmental problems include deforestation, water quality degradation, natural disasters, land erosion, salinity, unplanned urbanization, untreated waste discharge and industrial waste, etc. After the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in Sweden in 1972, environmental activities were first taken up in Bangladesh. Immediately after the Stockholm Conference, environmental activities were started in Bangladesh under the Department of Public Health Engineering with only 27 manpower. After the Water Pollution Control Ordinance was passed in 1973, a project called Water Pollution Control was taken up. In 1977, a 16-member Environmental Pollution Control Board was formed under the leadership of a member of the Planning Commission, and in the same year, an Environmental Pollution Control Cell was formed with 26 manpower under the leadership of a director. In continuation of this, the Environmental Pollution Control Project was taken up in 1977. Then in 1985, it was renamed the Directorate of Pollution Control and in 1989, it was renamed the Directorate of Environment under the leadership of a Director General. The entire office of the Department of Environment is being carried out through its headquarters in Dhaka and 6 divisional offices outside Dhaka in Chittagong, Khulna, Bogra, Barisal and Sylhet. In 2010, the government created an additional 468 new posts by starting the activities of 21 district offices. Currently, the total manpower of the Department of Environment is 735. With this manpower, the department is making relentless efforts towards the dream of building a pollution-free Golden Bangladesh by 2021.