A nilgai has once again crossed India's barbed-wire border fence into the Dharmapur sal forest in Birol upazila of Dinajpur. Local people are crowding into the forest to see it.
Dharmapur beat officer Mohsin Ali confirmed that the nilgai had come from India. He said it somehow jumped the fence on Thursday night or Friday morning and entered the sal forest inside Bangladesh. In the morning, people collecting dry leaves in the forest in No 8 Dharmapur union saw it and informed forest guards. "Hearing from the guards, I went to the forest and saw the nilgai," he said.
Mohsin Ali said local people began roaming the forest trying to catch the animal. Announcements were then made over the loudspeakers of every mosque in the area, and before Jumma prayers, that no one should catch, hurt or disturb it. When the news spread on social media on Saturday, crowds of curious people grew, coming from different places. Frightened, the animal has been running about. On Saturday it was seen moving through the forest and nearby paddy fields.
Concern for its safety
Local journalist MA Kuddus posted pictures of the nilgai on his Facebook wall, writing that another nilgai had entered the Dharmapur sal forest in Birol from India and was staying there. He added that it was being harassed and that the authorities should take note so that it does not die at the last moment.
Speaking on Saturday (11 March) afternoon, beat officer Mohsin Ali said the nilgai was still in the Dharmapur sal forest. Security measures have been taken, forest guards' leave has been cancelled and a round-the-clock watch is being kept, he said.
Earlier, on the morning of 17 March 2022, a nilgai crossed India's fence into Bangladesh in the Kamdebpur border area of Dharmapur union in Birol. Locals chased it for a long time and it fell ill in the afternoon. Soldiers from the Dharmajain BGB camp took the sick animal to their camp, where it died. It was buried after a post-mortem in the presence of forest department and livestock officials.
Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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