Illegal Hill cutting increase in Chittagong, Bangladesh by Sultan Mahmud Mukut / SOPA Images
Hill cutting is continuing unabated in the city at a time when the coronavirus pandemic should be seen as a wake-up call to rethink our relationship with natural ecosystems and shrinking biodiversity. In 2015 International journal of nature and life sciences published a research report where wrote that, In the past 28 years, maximum 64% hill was totally demolished in the metropolitan area of Chittagong. On June 11, 2007, as many as 127 people died following a landslide in this city, however, the grim reminder of the tragedy still fails to act as a deterrent against razing and destroying hills of this city. Apart from individuals and private organisations, the state-owned agencies are also found levelling hills, posing a serious threat to the environment.
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