Around 2,500 monkeys in Madaripur are facing acute food crisis as the "Programme for protection and development of endangered monkeys in Char Muguria area" ended on June 30.
Quite a few monkeys have already died due to food crisis while many mother monkeys, passing days starved or half-starved, are even unable to breast feed their babies, locals said.
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