Forest dependent people enter into

Forest dependent people enter into the forest for collecting timber (illegally), fire wood and other forest resources. Sometimes, they come cross elongated tortoises.
In most of the cases, they ignore the tortoises, but if captured due to curiosity are soon returned back to the jungle (66.8%), although in some cases captured tortoises are gifted to the tribal people (18.5%), in other occasions (11.1%) were consumed by catchers and the rest (3.6%) were sold to the tribal people.
Chakma, Tanchangya and Marma tribes live around the forest of Cox's Bazar South Forest Division.
Comparing the decreasing of tortoise due to habitat destruction (including decreasing preferable habitat) and trade (including flesh consumption) was not statistically significant ( χ2 = 1.96, df = 1, p > 0.05).
Usually when a tortoise is captured, it is either released into the forest later, or eaten by the catcher or given someone to eat and these three fates of a captured tortoise did not vary significantly ( χ2 = 1.68, df = 2, p > 0.05).