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Baragangina Resource Management Organisation

HQ 🇧🇩 Bangladesh · 1 project tracked

Baikka Beel: The Sanctuary Bangladesh's Fishers Guard Themselves

Food & Farming

🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Fishing villages around a north-east Bangladeshi haor agreed to stop fishing 170 hectares of it entirely — and within a few years were catching twenty times more everywhere else.

170hectaresPermanent community-guarded wetland sanctuary
12.3kbirdsWaterbirds counted in the sanctuary
11ktreesSwamp trees planted
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