To,
The Hon'ble Secretary , Department of Environment
and Forest , Government of Assam ,
Dispur , Guwahati-781006 ,Assam, India
The undersigned would like to submit as follows------
The Holong is the State tree of Assam and this kind of unique
trees were found in abundance in the pristine rain forest of Upper
Assam. The Dihing-Patkai rainforest had large number of these
tall , beautiful trees. but it transpired from the media report
that this wonderful tree is virtually
on on the verge of extinction due to the wanton destruction by the
timber mafia .It appears that the timber mafia with the blessing of
the indolent forest official plunder this dense forest. The other reason,
assigned is the skeletal staff and with such staff it very difficult to
check the illegal logging of hollong tree.The manner and pace in
which illegal logging of.,
Hollong is carried out by the timber mafia ,we apprehend that within
a decade this majestic tree will become extinct
from the rain forest of Assam.
There is provision in the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972 to
declare a wild life as endangered and besides stringent laws are
there to deal with any person who disturb or cause harm to such
wildlife and even life imprisonment is prescribed for the poaching in
Assam by an amendment made in the year 2009 but so far as tree is
concerned there is no such law in India
to declare a particular tree as endangered, rare or threatened.The
illegal logging is treated lightly and a paltry fine or light
imprisonment is imposed to the offender.
We therefore like to place a few suggestion in this regards
.1) take steps to amend the relevant laws so that a particular tree
may be declared as endangered,rare or threatened 2) enlist hollong tree
in such list as endangered and threatened tree 3) stringent
punishment be inflicted to those who
involved in illegal logging 4) the NGO ,nature loving citizen and
College students who resided within the periphery of the rainforest should be
encouraged to plant hollong tree 5) the syllabi of the school be modified to
include the story of holong 6) fill up the vacancies of forest
official in the entire rain forest
area of Assam on top priority basis.7) explore the possibility of
installing sensors in some
hollong tree because Karnataka forest department has already used
such a device to check
the poaching of sandalwood . The advantage of using such a device is
that when a tree faces any threat
of chopping,cutting or uprooting ,the device sends an alert
I therefore request you to initiate concrete steps to check the
illegal logging of Hollong trees .
With regards
Jayanta Deka ,Rajapam,Mangaldoi Town PIN--784125 ,Assam, India
P.S----If you spare a little bit of time please forward this petition to the envtforest2016@gmail.com , hoff-assam@gov.in
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