Man who felled palm tree with over 100 endangered bird nests arrested in Bangladesh


The weaver bird, locally known as babui pakhi, is classified as an endangered species. The 70-year-old man who cut the tree has been arrested. - The Daily Star/ANN

DHAKA: A 70-year-old man has been arrested for illegally cutting down a palm tree planted on government land in Jhalakathi, which had more than a hundred nests of weaver birds, leading to the deaths of numerous hatchlings.

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Mobarak Ali Fakir from Guaton village of Jhalakathi’s Sadar upazila on Sunday (June 29), confirmed DB Officer-in-Charge Md Selim Uddin.

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