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Conservationists, wildlife officials, academics, and students person got unneurotic to propulsion for the Ramsar tract tag for 2 interconnected wetlands successful cardinal Assam’s Nagaon district.
The Rowmari-Donduwa wetland analyzable is wrong the 70.13 sq. km Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary, which is simply a portion of the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve. This analyzable has been signaling much birds than the lone 2 Ramsar sites successful the northeast – Assam’s Deepor Beel and Manipur’s Loktak Lake.
A Ramsar tract is simply a wetland designated arsenic 1 of planetary value nether the Ramsar Convention, an intergovernmental pact signed successful Ramsar, Iran successful 1971.
An mean of 120 taxon of nonmigratory and migratory birds, including globally threatened taxon specified arsenic the knob-billed duck, black-necked stork, and the ferruginous pochard, person been recorded successful the wetland analyzable annually. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement
“Laokhowa and the adjoining Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuaries relation arsenic connectivity corridors for chaotic animals migrating betwixt the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve and Orang National Park (Kaziranga-Orang landscape),” said Sonali Ghosh, the Field Director of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
She said that civilian nine organisations and students from colleges successful the vicinity person been researching and monitoring the wetland complex. She said that their efforts person yielded captious information connected avian taxon and the floodplain-marsh ecosystem of the 2 wetlands, which screen an country of astir 3 sq. km.
An mean of 120 taxon of nonmigratory and migratory birds, including globally threatened taxon specified arsenic the knob-billed duck, black-necked stork, and the ferruginous pochard, person been recorded successful the wetland analyzable annually.
According to the 6th Kaziranga Waterbird Census conducted a fewer months ago, 20,653 birds of 75 taxon were recorded astatine the Rowmari Beel, and 26,480 birds of 88 taxon were counted astatine Donduwa Beel.
The combined full exceeds the counts astatine Deepor Beel and Loktak Lake, officials said.
“The outstanding avian assemblage astatine the Rowmari-Donduwa complex, coupled with its affluent situation diverseness and ecological connectivity, makes the wetlands an perfect campaigner for designation nether the Ramsar Convention,” said Smarajit Ojah, the serviceman connected Special Duty for Assam’s Directorate of Higher Education, aft a conservation store organised successful Nagaon recently.
The workshop, organised by the Centre for Sustainable Development, Nowgong Girls’ College, and the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, focused connected strategies to conserve the Laokhowa wetlands.
Dilwar Hussain of the Laokhowa-Burhachapori Wildlife Conservation Society cited ecological vulnerability and the request for situation restoration arsenic the reasons wherefore the Rowmari-Donduwa analyzable deserves to beryllium a Ramsar site. “Assam has much than 3,000 wetlands, but nary has earned the Ramsar tract tag since Deepor Beel successful 2002,” helium said.
India hosts 93 Ramsar Sites spanning 13.6 lakh hectares, making it 1 of the starring Asian countries successful wetland conservation. These sites encompass divers ecosystems that enactment affluent biodiversity and supply important ecosystem services specified arsenic flood control, groundwater recharge, and wildlife situation protection.
Tamil Nadu leads each Indian states with 20 Ramsar sites, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 10.
Assam Forest Department officials stated that a connection has been submitted to prosecute the elevation of the Rowmari-Donduwa wetland complex, erstwhile threatened by encroachment and amerciable fishing, to a Ramsar Site.
