Deepor Beel

Context

• Bird species count up in Deepor Beel, Assam’s lone Ramsar site.

About Deepor Beel

• Deepor Beel (Beel means wetland or large aquatic body in Assamese) is located about 10 km Southwest of Guwahati.
• It is considered one of the largest and important riverine wetlands in the Brahmaputra Valley of lower Assam, India.
• Due to the richness of avian fauna, it has been selected as one of the Important Bird Area (IBA) sites by Birdlife International.
• It was designated a Ramsar site in 2002 for sustaining a range of aquatic life forms besides 219 species of birds.

• A Ramsar Site is a wetland designated to be of international importance under the Convention on Wetlands, held at the Iranian city of Ramsar in February 1971.

Source: TH