The Ministry of Ambiance, Wooded enviornment, and Local climate Swap this day (2 October) requested the Planning Commision to extinguish the approval of the safari park mission in the reserved wooded enviornment of Lathitila in Moulvibazar.
The ministry made the advice in a letter to the commission this day, reads a press observation.
In line with the click observation, the “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, Moulvibazar (Share 1)” mission used to be conditionally approved in the ECNEC assembly on 9 November 2023.
Following the ECNEC assembly’s decision, a four-member committee used to be formed on 21 August 2024 by the ministry to assess the mission’s impact on biodiversity and present suggestions.
The committee used to be chaired by extinct Chief Conservator of Forests Ishtiaq Uddin Ahmed, with participants together with Mustafa Firoz, Professor of Zoology at Jahangirnagar University; Farid Uddin Ahmed, extinct Executive Director of Arannayk Basis; and Imran Ahmed, Conservator of Forests for Flora and fauna and Nature Conservation under the Wooded enviornment Division.
The committee suggested cancelling the mission, stating in its file that the Lathitila Wooded enviornment is portion of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot and serves as an elephant hall.
“Constructing a safari park in this space would negatively impact the wooded enviornment ecosystem. After angry by the ability effects of the proposed safari park on the wooded enviornment’s biodiversity and giving importance to the opinions of native stakeholders, the committee concluded that a safari park may perchance well well fair aloof now not be established in this pure wooded enviornment. Thus, they suggested the mission’s cancellation,” the environment ministry stated.
“The Wooded enviornment Division has been instructed to work on conserving the degraded areas of the wooded enviornment and its threatened biodiversity,” it added.
