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Various environmental organizations formed human chains on Wednesday to press home their demand to stop the survey by US oil and gas company Chevron in Lawachhera Reserve Forest.

The human chain was formed at Srimangal-Bhanugachh road adjacent to the Lawachhera reserve forest.

Though it was organized by the Sylhet unit of the Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association, other organizations like SUJON, Daily Samakal, Surid Samabesh Moulvibazar, Friends in Village Development Bangladesh, co-management committee of Lawachhera Nishargo Support Project and teachers and students of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Sylhet took part in it.

The local people of Kamalganj, members of Youth Aid and students of Madan Mohan University College in Sylhet also formed separate human chains on the railway line, which runs through Lawachhera Reserve Forest, on the same day (Wednesday) and time.

Chevron, a US oil and gas company, is conducting 3-dimensional Seismic Survey in Lawachhera Reserve Forest in search of oil and gas. Environmentalists said this survey will damage the flora and fauna and other resources of the forest.

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