The Chittagong Woodland Department has recovered 50 acres of encroached land below Satgarh Little bit of Chunti Vary in Lohagara upazila, in a day-prolonged operation performed the day earlier to this (23 September). The recovered land includes 17 fish farms, 10 betel leaf plantations, and an orange garden that had been illegally established on stable forest land.
Abdullah Al Mamun, divisional forest officer of Chattogram South Woodland Division, confirmed the recoverry asserting that an influential neighborhood had been encroaching on this reserved forest land for a truly prolonged time, the usage of it for fishing, betel leaf cultivation, and planting varied bushes.
“The operation, led by Assistant Conservator of Forests Delwar Hossain from the Chattogram South Woodland Division, alive to draining the fish farms, casting off water boundaries, and clearing the orange garden to reclaim the stable land. Among the recovered areas were 9 fish farms belonging to AJ Chowdhury and eight to Md Ayub Ali,” Mamun mentioned.
He mentioned that simply action against the encroachers is in direction of. “We can proceed conducting operations in stages to get better further encroached forest land,” he added further.
The forest division’s efforts purpose to give protection to and defend the set’s precious forest areas, which had been below threat attributable to illegal encroachments. Further action is anticipated in the arriving weeks to safeguard more sections of stable forest land in the set.
