Ban all zoos
A group called Save the Nature of Bangladesh yesterday demanded the closure of all zoos in Bangladesh, describing them as a "wildlife torture cell".
The demand has been raised from a protest rally held in front of the National Museum in Shahbagh yesterday, under the banner of the "Anti-Zoo Movement in Bangladesh".
As many as 150 activists from several districts and different organisations participated in the rally.
As a symbolic protest, some protestors locked themselves up in enclosures with their hands and legs cuffed to depict the ordeal of wildlife inside zoos.
They have issued around 700 postcards from the rally to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for taking the initiative to ban all zoos.
Some of the placards from the protest read, "Zoo is a symbol of modern civilisation's cruelty to wildlife" and "Ban wildlife torture cells".
Animals were supposed to live free, according to the speakers at the rally, but they are held in cages across the country for people's entertainment instead.
"There are around 50 zoos across the country where thousands of wild animals are confined. They are living there in a cruel environment," said ANM Moazzem Hossain, chairman of Save the Nature of Bangladesh.
"We will issue one lakh postcards to the PM for banning all zoos in the country as part of the ongoing protest. We have already issued around 27,000 of them. Our protest will continue till this torture of wildlife stops," he added.
Advocate Farhana Islam said, "Hunting, killing, buying and trafficking of wildlife is a punishable offence as per the law. However, this law is barely implemented. We urge the government to execute this law properly."
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