Deepor Beel
Why in news :
- Deepor Beel, Assam’s only Ramsar site, which is troubled by development projects and urban waste, has 30 more waterfowl species than the total counted in 2022, a bird survey conducted on January 4 has found.
Deepor Beel, Assam.
- Altogether 26,747 birds belonging to 96 species were recorded during the count at the wetland on the southwestern edge of Guwahati.
- The bird count in the State’s sole Ramsar site revealed greater species diversity and an increase in the total number of species.
- This was the second such exercise after February 2022, and the signs are encouraging.
- In the previous survey there were 10,289 individuals across 66 species.
About Deepor Beel :
- It is located to the south-west of Guwahati city, in Kamrup Metropolitan district of Assam, India.
- It is a permanent freshwater lake, in a former channel of the Brahmaputra River, to the south of the main river.
- It is also a wetland under the Ramsar Convention which has listed the lake in November 2002, as a Ramsar Site for undertaking conservation measures on the basis of its biological and environmental importance.
- It is claimed that beel was an important dockyard of the Tai-Ahom as well as the Mughals.
- It is also stated that Kampitha and Rambrai Syiemship (the supreme political authority is known as the Syiemship in Meghalaya) had control over this area.
Syllabus: Prelims; Environment
