Protect endangered Asian elephant in Ctg region: activists

A group of wildlife welfare activists today called upon the government to take urgent steps to protect endangered Asian elephants in the Chattogram region.

They made the call from a human chain held at the premises of Chattogram Press Club.

To save the endangered mammals, they also placed a four-point demand including bringing killers of elephants to book, ensuring source of water, corridors and food chain for the elephants, looking into the negligence of forest officials and implementing the wildlife conservation act.

Anamul Mithu, convener of the programme, said elephants are getting electrocuted, shot to death and poisoned.

The way their number is decreasing, they are assumed to go extinct within a decade, he said.