Staff Reporter :
People for Animal Welfare Foundation (PAWF), an organization dedicated to welfare of street animals, has served a legal notice to Bangladesh Forest Department and Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) after overhead electrical power line installed inside Mymensingh’s Santoshpur Reserve Forest has injured many monkeys and one of them already got killed in the forest.
Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Shihab Uddin Khan on behalf of PAWF served the legal notice demanding removal of the power line from the forest area immediately.
The notice also urged the Forest Department to ensure treatment and rehabilitation of the injured monkeys, according to a PAWF press release issued on Wednesday.
News of the injuries of many monkeys and subsequent death of one in the forest under Phulbaria upazila have been reported in various media creating an outcry among people.
“Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, Mymensingh Zone, without conducting sufficient physical assessment of the forest area, gave electricity supply and put the life of various wild animals in danger. Recently, a good number of monkeys have already got injured and one of them died,” read the legal notice.
It further read, “BREB of Mymensingh Zone, has conducted an irresponsible task putting wild life in danger through supplying power line within a protected reserve forest area. Moreover, the Department of Forest has miserably failed to take initiatives for stopping this risky move and also failed to discharge its liabilities in protecting wild life. It is a clear violation of the rules and regulations given to protect wild life in forest area.”
People for Animal Welfare Foundation (PAWF), an organization dedicated to welfare of street animals, has served a legal notice to Bangladesh Forest Department and Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) after overhead electrical power line installed inside Mymensingh’s Santoshpur Reserve Forest has injured many monkeys and one of them already got killed in the forest.
Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Shihab Uddin Khan on behalf of PAWF served the legal notice demanding removal of the power line from the forest area immediately.
The notice also urged the Forest Department to ensure treatment and rehabilitation of the injured monkeys, according to a PAWF press release issued on Wednesday.
News of the injuries of many monkeys and subsequent death of one in the forest under Phulbaria upazila have been reported in various media creating an outcry among people.
“Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, Mymensingh Zone, without conducting sufficient physical assessment of the forest area, gave electricity supply and put the life of various wild animals in danger. Recently, a good number of monkeys have already got injured and one of them died,” read the legal notice.
It further read, “BREB of Mymensingh Zone, has conducted an irresponsible task putting wild life in danger through supplying power line within a protected reserve forest area. Moreover, the Department of Forest has miserably failed to take initiatives for stopping this risky move and also failed to discharge its liabilities in protecting wild life. It is a clear violation of the rules and regulations given to protect wild life in forest area.”
