Plight of Arial Beel and Padma River livelihood & ecosystem
1. Introduction
We have visited Arial Beel, Munshiganj on the 02 December 2011 as part of RDM 501: Principles of Environment, Natural Recourse and Disaster Management course requirement. Our accompanying faculty was Raguib Uddin Ahmed. We started from Dhaka on at sharp 8:30am and it was day long field visit. On that day we visited mainly four different sites: two landfill areas those are for human settlement and industrial purpose, other one is a random selected village surrounding arial beel and finally Baggakul ghut, near Padma river, Munshiganj for understanding how Landfill is causing for wetland loss, Beel ecosystem and Riverine ecosystem. We also covered our task by identifying surrounding biodiversity characteristics, different animal and plant species, present management system etc. We started for Dhaka at 5:30 pm.
2. Background
Bangladesh is a small country comparing to adjacent countries but ecologically very diversified so is in terms of Biodiversity too. It is known riverine country. There were more then 800 rivers but many of them are lost partly or totally due to our past mistake and political unrests in past half of the century. We have mighty major rivers like Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna as big river. The minor rivers like Dhaleshari, Kodak etc carry more important role in overall national ecosystem than those major rivers. Disappearance of wetland & Minor Rivers due to unplanned development caused much extinction of our native species. Native species can rise naturally without any aid of human being including birds and fish eggs. Presence of sufficient number of native species of any country is an important indicator for sound environment. Now a day, habitats are being destroyed in Bangladesh for different causes so ultimately the native species are being extinct which causes great damages of the environment condition. So, many native
We have visited Arial Beel, Munshiganj on the 02 December 2011 as part of RDM 501: Principles of Environment, Natural Recourse and Disaster Management course requirement. Our accompanying faculty was Raguib Uddin Ahmed. We started from Dhaka on at sharp 8:30am and it was day long field visit. On that day we visited mainly four different sites: two landfill areas those are for human settlement and industrial purpose, other one is a random selected village surrounding arial beel and finally Baggakul ghut, near Padma river, Munshiganj for understanding how Landfill is causing for wetland loss, Beel ecosystem and Riverine ecosystem. We also covered our task by identifying surrounding biodiversity characteristics, different animal and plant species, present management system etc. We started for Dhaka at 5:30 pm.
2. Background
Bangladesh is a small country comparing to adjacent countries but ecologically very diversified so is in terms of Biodiversity too. It is known riverine country. There were more then 800 rivers but many of them are lost partly or totally due to our past mistake and political unrests in past half of the century. We have mighty major rivers like Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna as big river. The minor rivers like Dhaleshari, Kodak etc carry more important role in overall national ecosystem than those major rivers. Disappearance of wetland & Minor Rivers due to unplanned development caused much extinction of our native species. Native species can rise naturally without any aid of human being including birds and fish eggs. Presence of sufficient number of native species of any country is an important indicator for sound environment. Now a day, habitats are being destroyed in Bangladesh for different causes so ultimately the native species are being extinct which causes great damages of the environment condition. So, many native
References: a) Class lectures of RDM 501 Principles of Environment & Disaster Management. b) Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh “Arial Beel” Accessed on December 08 , 2011 http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/A_0295.HTM