Twenty-seven environmental organizations have come in solidarity to protect wildlife and forests
The most recent incidence of killing elephants, including other wild animals, raises questions regarding Bangladesh’s forest department. To address the issue, the “Bangladesh Nature Conservation Alliance” has called for a protest to stop the killing of wild animals and destruction of their habitat by deforestation on November 24, 2021. The rally has taken place in front of the gate of the “Forest Department of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh” in Agargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The ‘Bangladesh Nature Conservation Alliance’ consists of seven environment-centric organizations, and they further call for support from other organizations and stakeholders to make their demand count.
The organizations that have expressed solidarity with the Bangladesh Nature Conservation Alliance are:
- Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)
- Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA)
- Stamford University Bangladesh
- Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies – CAPS
- Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA)
- People for Animal Welfare Foundation, Bangladesh
- Save Our Sea
- Anchor Bangladesh,
- Deep Ecology And Snake Rescue Foundation
- Green Movement
- উপকূল বাঁচাও আন্দোলন (Upakul Bachao Andolan -UBA),
- Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust)
- River and Delta Research Centre -RDRC
- Green Fighting Movement
- Blue Green Foundation Bangladesh
- Green Savers
- Bangladesh Biodiversity Conservation Federation – BBCF
- Marine Journalists’ Network
- Student Environmental Organization-Arrow,
- Greenbud
- Nature Living People Sanctuary,
- animal welfare society bangladesh
- Care for Pause,
- Turag River Protection Committee,
- Youth Platform For Sustainable Development -YPSD
- Buriganga Bachao Andolon
- Bangladesh Nadi Paribrajak Dal (BRTN -নদী পরিব্রাজক দল) , and
- Bangladesh River Foundation
The prominent citizens of Bangladesh who expressed solidarity are:
- Dr. Md. Jasim Uddin, professor at Department of Botany, Dhaka University,
- Manjurul Kibria, laboratory Research Coordinator at Chattogram University,
- Dr. Kabirul Bashar, an entomologist and professor at Jahangirnagar University,
- Adnan Azad Asif, Wildlife Researcher,
- Jaya Ahsan, Bangladeshi Actress,
- Fatim Hasan Khan, a wildlife photographer,
- Dr. Nasir Uddin, a specialist member of the IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist team member,
- Kefayet Shakil, a life-nature journalist, and others.
