Desertification process destroying environment

Agriculture, ecology and bio-diversity are on the verge of peril due to drying up of water bodies every year and excessive  and indiscriminate use  of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in crop fields in the district, Maynul Alam, Executive Director of SUBAH a non-governmental organization working for the development of environment and ecology said with dejection. 
Various species of birds, animals, insects, reptiles other creatures and sweet water fishes have already disappeared from the region during the last twenty years posing a serious threat to bio-diversity due to the gradual desertification process.
The elderly people of the district could not recollect the names of extinct species of birds, fish, insects and animals which disappeared many years ago when the climatic, ecological and other conditions started becoming unfavourable for the existence.
Experts, thinkers, NGO workers of the district told the Independent that extinctions of the species of fish, birds, insects and other animals began long ago with the drying up of rivers and following unilateral withdrawal of the common river water in the upstream by the Indian government and using of excessive chemical fertiliser and insecticides in the crop field in unplanned manner.
It may be mentioned that the rivers Bhairab and Kazla of the district have no water and land grabbers in connivance with the Revenue Officials allegedly grabbed the river basin even the heart of river bed and cultivating paddy. It is further informed that the entry point of the river Bhairab in Bangladesh is Meherpur from India.
The situation we perceive every year after commissioning of the Farakka Barrage and others in the upstream that began the process of desertification in the area causing threat to bio-diversity, ecology, environment and the existence of the extinct species. Unplanned use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides also highly contributed to the process of disappearance of these species of insects, animals, local fish and birds, thinkers further said.
 
Courtesy of The Independent