UNB, Sunamganj :
Aiming to focus public attention on the exquisite natural beauty of the country’s second largest wetland and the immense tourism potential it holds, the local administration is going to organise a two-day ‘Haor Festival’ at Tanguar Haor in Tahirpur upazila on September 16-17.
The orgnisers expect that the event will be turned into a get-together for several thousand visitors where they could raise the demand for constructing tourism infrastructures in the world heritage Ramsar site, Tanguar Haor, stretching over 10,000 hectares of marshy area in Dharmapasha and Tahirpur upazilas of Sunamganj district. In close touch with the hills of the Indian state of Meghalaya, the designated wetland of international importance is also called “Second Sundarbans” for its cology, biodiversity, flora and fauna, birds habitat of both resident and migratory, natural wetland, bird sanctuary, mother-fisheries and tourism aspects. UNESCO declared Tanguar Haor as one of the Ramsar sites in 2000 and considered this wetland world heritage on account of its international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology for civilisation.
Its transparent water and live fish species make this water body a natural aquarium as well as its surrounding landscape of Shillong massif and Garo-Khasia hills make a beautiful site to dissolve in nature to forget tiredness of busy life. The wetland comprises 53 water bodies which are home to 141 species of fish, 200 species of aquatic plants, 340 local and foreign species of birds, 98 types of migratory birds, 121 types of ducks, 19 types of mammals, 29 types of reptiles and many amphibians.
Aiming to focus public attention on the exquisite natural beauty of the country’s second largest wetland and the immense tourism potential it holds, the local administration is going to organise a two-day ‘Haor Festival’ at Tanguar Haor in Tahirpur upazila on September 16-17.
The orgnisers expect that the event will be turned into a get-together for several thousand visitors where they could raise the demand for constructing tourism infrastructures in the world heritage Ramsar site, Tanguar Haor, stretching over 10,000 hectares of marshy area in Dharmapasha and Tahirpur upazilas of Sunamganj district. In close touch with the hills of the Indian state of Meghalaya, the designated wetland of international importance is also called “Second Sundarbans” for its cology, biodiversity, flora and fauna, birds habitat of both resident and migratory, natural wetland, bird sanctuary, mother-fisheries and tourism aspects. UNESCO declared Tanguar Haor as one of the Ramsar sites in 2000 and considered this wetland world heritage on account of its international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology for civilisation.
Its transparent water and live fish species make this water body a natural aquarium as well as its surrounding landscape of Shillong massif and Garo-Khasia hills make a beautiful site to dissolve in nature to forget tiredness of busy life. The wetland comprises 53 water bodies which are home to 141 species of fish, 200 species of aquatic plants, 340 local and foreign species of birds, 98 types of migratory birds, 121 types of ducks, 19 types of mammals, 29 types of reptiles and many amphibians.
