10 wild animals died in Lauachhara National Park in nine months

Moulvibazar Correspondent :
The road railways and electricity grid lines that pass through the Lauachhra National Park are now causing the death of wildlife. Many rare species of monkeys, hunumans, pythons were killed by trains or die on roads. Many wild animals are also sometimes killed by electric wires. Concerned authorities are apathetic to implement the long-standing demand to take out the national grid lines of railways, roads and electricity that have become national parks. Wildlife management and nature
According to the Conservation Department, Moulvibazar, 10 wild animals have lost their lives within the nine months since last January, entangled in roads and power lines in Lauachhra. The wildlife sanctuary of Lauachhra has now become dangerous for wildlife due to the passage of railways and roads through the forest.
Conscious environmentalists think that speed control of vehicles on the seven kms railway and paved road in Lauachhara has become necessary. Also regional roads are more beneficial if they are taken outside the forest. It is known that according to Sections 2 and 3 of the Wildlife Ordinance 1974, on July 7, 1996, 1,250 hectares (3088 acres) of the West Banugach reserved forest area between Kamalganj and Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar district in the north-eastern part of the country was declared a national park (a protected area for nature). Announced by the then Govt. In the conservation of wildlife and nature there That initiative was taken. But the devastating explosion and fire at the Magurchhara Gascoop in 1997 caused untold damage to forests and wildlife – which has yet to be recovered. The maximum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius in February and 36 degrees Celsius in June is present in this forest, which is about 171 km away from the capital Dhaka. According to the forest department, Lauachhra has 460 species of biodiversity. 246 species of birds, 6 species of reptiles and 4 species
Amphibians roam this forest. Besides, 167 species of wild animals have been released in these few years. Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) of Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Department, Shyamal Kumar Mitra, said that two monkeys, one face-faced Hanuman, one spectacled Hanuman, one upside-down lazy monkey, one gandagokul, one beji and one tiger died in the accident in the last 8 months. Meanwhile, Mukhpura Hanuman lost his life on the electricity grid line and all the rest on the roads.
We have started various programs to control the speed of vehicles in the forest for the safety of wildlife. We want the speed of bus trains in the Lauachhara National Park area to not exceed 20 kmph under any circumstances and we want to ensure that. Divisional Forest Officer of Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Department Rezaul Karim Chowdhury said that a letter has been sent to the concerned department to remove the road from Lauachhara.