Nature Quest: Wildlife faces food crisis

The Madhupur National Park was already a ample and close forest, home to abounding agrarian animals, including tigers and bears.
There are no tigers or bears there anymore. But these animals are not the alone breed that disappeared. Agrarian fruits and herbal copse are dematerialization fast from the forest, causing an astute aliment crisis for the scattering of primates and birds that still alive there.
Sixty-three-year-old Mandi (Garo) baton Ajay A Mri reminisced about the backwoods he saw in his childhood, back he acclimated to booty his beasts assemblage into the backwoods for grazing.
They acclimated to apprehend aural cries of langurs and monkeys in the forest, said Ajay, baton of Jayenshahi Adibashi Unnayan Parishad.
He and his accompany alike sighted abounding deer, agrarian boars, rabbits, hedgehogs and agrarian fowls in the forests.
“While the beasts grazed, we would accumulate agrarian fruits and comestible leaves and plants from the forest,” he said, anecdotic the actuality of affluence of agrarian bake-apple copse and alleviative herbs and shrubs, including Bohera, Haritaki, Amloki, Dumur, Anai Gota, Joina Gota and Tithi Jam in the forest.