Bangladesh is blessed with huge inland open water resources. Hakaluki Haor is one of the major wetlands of Bangladesh. With a land area of 18,386 hectors, it supports a rich biodiversity and provides direct and indirect livelihood benefits to nearly 190,000 people. Hakaluki is a complex ecosystem, containing more than 238 interconnecting beels and jalmahals .

Hakaluki Haor falls under two administrative districts, Maulvubazar and Sylhet. Some 190,000 people live in the area sunounding the haor. Hakaluki Haor is an important source of fisheries resources for bangladesh. The beels in Hakaluki Haor provide winter shelter for the mother fisheries. In early monsoon these mother fisheries produce millions of fries for the entire downstream fishing communities. Floodplains are also an important source of fisheries resources within the area. However, many of the beels have lost their capacity to provide shelter for mother fisheries because of sand deposits from upstream rivers nad canals, use of complete dewatering technique for fishing and lack of aquatic plants to provide feed and shelter for parent fish. The Haor is very important resting place for migratory waterfowls flying in from the north.

The most interesting species is the Barheaded Goose, which is now hardly seen in fresh water wetlands. Many other important species of waterfowls make the Haor their temporary home. Unfortunately, illegal poaching has been a threat to the waterfowl population in tese vast wetlands. Hakaluki Haor is known as a good grazing land in winter. People from villages around the Haor and also from distant areas end their herds for grazing. The Haor had very dense swamp forests in the past, but deforestation and a lack of conservation practices have virtually destroyed this unique forest in the last two decades.

MCQ: 21.4k CQ: 233

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