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Tanguar Haor World Heritage and the daughter of foothills of Shillong massif

  • Tanguar haor is the beauty queen of Surma basin of Bangladesh .It is located at the north-eastern corner of Bangladesh under Sunamganj at Dharmapasha and Tahirpur Upazila and adjacent to Meghlaya hill range.It is a world heritage consisted with rare specieses of flora and fauna.It is wetland ecosystem comprising 10000 ha of area at the foothills of Western Khasi hills of Shillong massif. Tanguar haor is a live aquarium comprises of 150 rare speciemen of fishes It is inscribed as a wetland of international importance according to Nature Ramser declaration of UNESCO since 2000

    Tanguar haor belongs to Surma basin which is famous for hyrocarbon resources and only fresh water body for fish breeding in Bangladesh

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    2014 is the UN International Year of Family Farming – for that the Ramsar Convention chose Wetlands & Agriculture as the World Wetlands Day theme for 2014 because Wetlands are intimately linked with agriculture.

    Celebrating Nature
    The crystal color blue water of Tanguar Haor attracts peoples attention to explore its beauty and tranquility

    touches the soul of human being and speaksnature is the spirit of lifeFresh air with full of oxygen and noise free ambient environment melts the heart of urban citizen to dissolve into nature and love It is a Migratory birds habitat where hundred and thousands birds nesting in winter season.It is a habitat of more than 100 endangered species of flora and fauna for that it has global international values to conserve this wetland for future generatiHealthy wetlands.healthy peopleTanguar haor is globally important for the conservation of biological diversity and sustaining human life through the maintenance of ecosystem of Tanguar haor
    Tangua 100 resident birds and about 200 species of flora are living in this wetland of Tanguar haor which is a world heritage. Hundreds of thouthands migratory birds come at winter season in this haor due to abundance of small fishes and flanktons.This fresh water body described as Mother Fisheries for the entire haor
  • How to go Tanguar haor
  • area of Sunamganj of Surma basin of Bangladesh