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DEEPOR BEEL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY.
#ConservationThe Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the eco-sensitive zone of the Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the south-western edge of Guwahati.□ ABOUT :-◇ Deepar Beel is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Assam and the State’s only Ramsar site besides being an Important Bird Area.
◇ Located to the south-west of Guwahati city, in Kamrup Metropolitan district.
◇ It is a permanent freshwater lake, in a former channel of the Brahmaputra River, to the south of the main river.
□ MAJOR THREATS :-
◇ Deepar Beel has long been used as a
sponge for Guwahati’s sewage via a couple of streams.
◇ Wetland has also suffered from
seepage of toxins from a
garbage dump at Boragaon adjoining it.
◇ For decades been threatened by a railway track set to be
doubled and
electrified on its
southern rim, a
garbage dump, and
encroachment from human habitation and
commercial units. ︎
SOURCE - TH.
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