The clue is there
A report entitled “Trees dying in Dhaka” published in The Daily Star on 12th November 2010 says that experts are clueless behind the reasons of the death or decay of trees. The experts may be clueless but I, a layman, am not clueless about the reason. My office is in Uttara on Alaol Avenue. There is a road going out of the avenue. The police quarters stand on the road. The road is lined with green trees on both sides. I walk through that road at least twice a day. A few months back in the morning I found, to my astonishment, many trees on the road were scaled from top to bottom. It was done overnight, because the previous evening while I was passing through the road, I saw the trees ok.
A few days after I found some more trees on other roads scaled in the same way. I remember I saw a few very big and old trees on the road near Polo ground in Chittagong scaled from top to bottom.
There is no doubt that an organised criminal gang is involved in this act to cause them to die. Their intention is to fell those trees in the future by showing them as dead. So, those who are involved in cutting down trees on the streets, with permission from the authorities concerned, may be questioned to find out who are behind the heinous act.
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