A specialist committee has been formed to ensure the protection of elephants at the Korean EPZ area in Chattogram, under the initiative of Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
This committee will submit a report to the ministry within the next three weeks, containing specific recommendations to ensure a safe working environment for EPZ workers and to resolve human-elephant conflicts.
The committee was formed at a meeting at the ministry's mini-conference room in the Bangladesh Secretariat on Monday, said a press release.
Environment Advisor, President and Managing Director of the Korean EPZ, Chief Conservator of Forests, and ministry officials were present in the meeting.
The Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram will chair the specialist committee, while other members include Professor Dr. Monirul H. Khan of Jahangirnagar University, Professor Dr. Anwarul Islam of Dhaka University, a representative of IUCN, two representatives from the Korean EPZ, Rubaiya Ahmed from Obhoyaronno (Bangladesh Animal Welfare Foundation), and the Divisional Forest Officer of the Chattogram South Forest Division.
The Divisional Forest Officer of the Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Division, Chattogram, will serve as the member secretary of the committee, it added.
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