Study Tour Tanguar Haor Draft

The presentation on
Study Tour to Tanguar Haor
and Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group
Jalmohal of Sunamganj District
Presented by:
ECAMU-CWBMP
Hakaluki Haor Site

Activities during the trip:
- Visiting Roa Beel, Beel,
Hatirgada Beel
and Rupabui Beel of Tanguar Haor
- Visiting Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga
Group Jalmohal under Sunamganj
District.
- Meeting with District
Administration of Sunamganj
- Press conference

Introducing Introducing with with Sunamganj Sunamganj District District Administration Administration at at
Circuit Circuit House House Conference Conference Room
Room

Resource Management System in past
in Tanguar Haor and :
- Before declaration of Tanguar Haor as the
second ramsar area, it was normally leased
out by DC, Sunamganj and resources were
collected by leases through traditional ways.
- Then population and varieties of fish and
waterfowls were reducing
- Swamp forests of the kandas were
decreasing due to excessive and unwise
harvest.

Resource Management System in past
in Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group
Jalmohal: Jalmohal:
- In past it was leased out by Sunamganj
District Administration and leases harvest
fish and managed the beel through
traditional ways.
- Then varieties and population of fish,
resident and migratory waterfowls and
swamp forests in kandas were decreasing.

Resource Management System at present at
Tanguar Haor:
- After declaration of ramsar area, beels of
Tanguar Haor has been directly managed by DC,
Sunamganj.
Sunamganj
- Exists guarding of police and BDR.
- Harmful gears are banned, swamp plantation
cutting is restricted.
- Population of fishes, waterfowls and swamp
forests are increasing day by day.

Resource Management System at
present at Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group
Jalmohal: Jalmohal
- At present, Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group
Jalmohal was leased out first time for three
years and then for five years under
development scheme.
- The leases re-excavated re excavated the beel and
managed through a good manner to
improve biodiversity.
- Several species of resident and migratory
waterfowls observed in the area.

Pile in water and reeds in the kandas of Borodoi- Borodoi
Kastogonga Group Jaqlmohal

Community access to the resources of
Tanguar Haor:
- Massive community access for fishing is not
allowed in the Tanguar Haor.
- Poor and subsistent fishers can catch fish in the
haor by using pull net ( (thela thela jal), jal),
cast ( (Felon Felon jal) jal)
net, etc.
- The fishers can meet their fish demand from the
caught fish and sometimes they can sale.
- Community access for swamp forests and reed
collection is fully prohibited.
- During monsoon, it becomes a suitable waterway
by boat for the people surrounding area.

Community access to the
resources of Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga
Group jalmohal: jalmohal
- Only in the monsoon, fishers have access
to fish in the beel and its adjacent area.
- During dry season fishing is not allowed in
the beel but rice cultivation is allowed in the
periphery.
- Fishing guards are recruited from the
fisher community around the beel.
beel

Strengths for the Management System of
Tanguar Haor:
- As protection is one of the major parts of
biodiversity management, the authority for
Tanguar Haor management has been doing it very
strictly and in good manner, which makes the haor
rich in biodiversity. It is on of the strengths for
biodiversity management system of Tanguar Haor.
- Officers, who are involved in resource
management is dedicated.
- The Government of Bangladesh made the haor
lease free. So it is proved that the Government of
Bangladesh has willingness to protect biodiversity
of Tanguar Haor.

Strengths for the Management System of
Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group Jalmohal: Jalmohal
- The leases have willingness to conserve
biodiversity of the beel
- The district administration supported them to do
it.

Weakness for the Management System of
Tanguar Haor:
- It has been observed during the trip at Tanguar
Haor that some current net still has been used for
fishing, which was banned as one of the harmful
gears. Therefore, it is assumed that protection is
not only the sustainable way to manage the
resources of Tangaur Haor.
- The local haor dependent community might be
motivated and involved with the biodiversity
management system of Hakaluki Haor.
- Wastage of coal mining, which pollutes water
coming from Tekerghat areas, is another threat for
the management system.

Weakness for the Management
System of Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group
Jalmohal: Jalmohal
- After investment of huge money the
jalmohal might be leased out to another
lease, makes the existing lease confused.
- The leases have no enough knowledge to
manage the beel for attracting eco-tourists
eco tourists. .

BIOLOGICAL STATUS OF RESOURCES
Overall situation:
- The biological status of Tanguar Haor and
Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group Jalmohal were observed
well.
- Varieties swamp plants and reeds in kandas of
beels, beels,
broad and short leaved floating, submerged
aquatic vegetations in the beels. beels.
- No human disturbance observed in whole the
haor, so waterfowls and fish movement was
frequent and fearlessness.

Plant biodiversity of
Tangauar Haor:
- Due to lack of human and cattle
disturbance, huge, hijol, hijol,
karach, karach,
bantulshi, bantulshi,
ghutghuitta,
ghutghuitta,
nol and other
unknown grasses were observed in
kandas of beels. beels.
- Water was full of submerged and
floating vegetation like singra, singra,
shapla, shapla,
makhna, makhna,
etc. etc.

Floating aquatic vegetation in Tanguar Haor

Vegetation type and waterfowls in the kandas of
Tanguar Haor

Plant biodiversity of Borodoi- Borodoi
Kastogonga Group Jalmohal: Jalmohal
- Due to lack of human and cattle
disturbance, huge bantulshi, bantulshi,
nol nol and other
unknown grasses were observed in the
kandas of the beel. beel.
- Water was full of submerged and floating
vegetations like singra, singra,
shapla, shapla,
makhna, makhna,
etc.

Makhna in Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group Jalmohal

Fish biodiversity Tanguar Haor,
Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group Jalmohal :
- Due to existing strict protection, fish
diversity and population has been increasing
day by day in Tanguar Haor, Borodoi- Borodoi
Kastogonga Group Jalmohal and its adjacent
areas.
- Both the areas are an important fish
breeding centres in the country. - - Due to
lack of fishing, no fish species observed
during the trip except some small fishes like
puti, puti,
chela, chela,
etc. jumped out of water.
water

Wildlife biodiversity of Tanguar Haor: Haor
- Migratory igratory ducks like Eurasian Wigeon (Anas Anas
penelope), penelope),
Common Coot ( (Fulica Fulica atra), atra),
Brown-
headed Gull ( (Larus Larus brunnicephalus), brunnicephalus),
Ruddy
Shelduck (Tadorna Tadorna ferruginea) ferruginea)
- Resident waterfowls like Spot-bill Spot bill Duck ( (Anas Anas
poecilorhyncha), poecilorhyncha),
Pheasant-tailed Pheasant tailed Jacana
(Hydrophasianus
Hydrophasianus chirurgus), chirurgus),
Bronzed-winged
Bronzed winged
Jacana ( (Metopidus Metopidus indicus), indicus),
Common Moorhen
(Gallinula Gallinula chloropus), chloropus),
Little Grebe ( (Trachybaptus
Trachybaptus
ruficollis), ruficollis),
Grey Heron ( (Ardea Ardea cinerea); cinerea);
- Raptor birds like Black Kite ( (Milvus Milvus migrans), migrans),
Brahminy Kite ( (Haliastur Haliastur indus) indus)
and Pallas’s Fish
Eagle ( (Haliaeetus Haliaeetus leucoryphus)
leucoryphus

Purple Swamphen (Kalim Kalim) ) in Tanguar Haor

Wildlife biodiversity of Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga
Group Jalmohal: Jalmohal
- Fulvous Whistling Duck ( (Dendrocygna
Dendrocygna bicolor), bicolor),
Lesser Whistling Duck ( (Dendrocygna
Dendrocygna javanica), javanica),
Little Grebe ( (Trachybaptus
Trachybaptus ruficollis), ruficollis),
Little
Cormorant ( (Phalacrocorax
Phalacrocorax niger), niger),
Pond Heron
(Ardeola Ardeola grayii), grayii),
Ferroginous Pochard (Aythya Aythya
nyroca), nyroca),
Darter ( (Anhinga Anhinga melanogaster),
melanogaster),
- A Pallas’s Fish Eagle ( (Haliaeetus Haliaeetus leucoryphus)
leucoryphus)
called very loudly sitting on a stack nearer to the
guard camp of the beel, beel,
where we were sitting.

How the wetlands contributing to the
national economy:
- As Tanguar Haor and Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group
Jalmohal are important fish breeding centres of
the country, huge fishes breeds there and spread
in the country through its outlets.
- Fisher communities near the outlets and their
tributaries able to harvest more fish after
establishment of the present management
system.
- Due to undisturbed condition, migratory birds of
various species come every year in those water
bodies.
- A lot of local and foreign eco-tourists eco tourists and
researchers visit the haor every year.

Ecotourism potential: potential
Tanguar Haor and Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga
Group Jalmohal
Jalmohal are rich in fish biodiversity
and waterfowl diversity.
Both the sites can be developed as eco-
tourist areas through providing visitor
facilities in safe distance

The main challenges for biodiversity
conservation at Tanguar Haor are:
- illiteracy of local haor dependent people,
- poverty of the local haor dependant people
and
- biodiversity status may be disrupted after
termination of the existing management
system, because community motivation and
involvement is absent.

Current (fishing) Net captured by guards of
Tanguar Haor

The main challenges for conservation
of the biodiversity of Borodoi-
Kastogonga Group Jalmohal is:
- Illiteracy and poverty of local people,
who are depended on haor resources

Learnings
For Tanguar Haor
- As a part of management system biodiversity resources
can be managed through protection.
- For further sustainability community motivation and
involvement is a must for biodiversity conservation.
Borodoi-Kastogonga
Kastogonga Group Jalmohal
For Borodoi
Leases can take part in biodiversity conservation if the
leases have willingness and the authority helps.

Recommendations:
- To save the important mother fishery and
migratory waterfowl areas, the management
authority of Tanguar Haor might involve the local
haor dependent people and take motivational
activities.
- The Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group Jalmohal can be
made an eco-tourist eco tourist area through proper
management and development of visitor facilities.
- The district administration might lease out the
Borodoi-Kastogonga
Borodoi Kastogonga Group Jalmohal to the same
lease again.

Photographs of Tanguar Haor

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