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Rejoinder, our reply
In a rejoinder to a Daily Star report headlined "2,000 Jhau TYees on beach cut down", published on February 19, Range Forest Officer of Inani Range under Cox's Bazar South Forest Division Sunil Kumar Debroy claimed that the news was not based on facts.
The range officer said a total of 205 stumps of tamarisk (jhau) trees were seen at the spot. He said of the total remains only three were of recently cut trees. He claimed that as Jhau trees are very strong, the remains of the felled trees can be visible even after two to three years of the tree cutting.
Sunil Kumar Debroy said after publication of the news, the divisional forest officer (DFO) of Cox's Bazar South Forest Division along with President of Cox's Bazar Forest and Environment Protection Council Deepak Sharma, its General Secretary Ibrahim Khalil, and representatives of the local civil society visited the spot on February 19. He claimed that during the visit no authenticity of the newswasfound.
The range forest officer said the forest department created a Jhau grove in the department's Reju patrol outpost area in fiscal years 2001-02 and 2002-03. He said a good number of trees from the grove were destroyed by heavy rainfall and stormy wind. He said in the last four years the forest department collected 561 fallen trees, sold those through tender and deposited the revenue to the government exchequer. Besides, cases were filed against local plunderers of trees.
OUR REPLY
The Daily Star published the report after its correspondent made a spot visit and talked to local people. The report also carried a picture of the stumps of freshly cut trees. Besides, it also gave the versions of the officials concerned of the forest division.
Upon receipt of the rejoinder, The Daily Star contacted Cox's Bazar Forest and Environment Protection Council officials who the forest division claimed to have been with the DFO while he visited the spot and found no truth about tree cutting.
Talking to The Daily Star the council's General Secretary Ibrahim Khalil expressed surprise at such a claim, and asserted that they had seen plundering of Jhau trees near Inani beach. He said tree felling by thieves has been rampant in the sea resort township of Cox's Bazar.
The council's President Deepak Sharma told The Daily Star that after the report was published they visited the Inani beach area on February 19 and found that hundreds of trees had been cut down overnight. "We also brought the issue of such wholesale plundering of trees to the notice of the divisional forest officer concerned," he added.
It is obvious that the people the forest division's rejoinder mentioned were misquoted. We stand by our report.