How an engineer brought degraded wetlands back to life in drought-hit Bangladesh

How an engineer brought degraded wetlands back to life in drought-hit Bangladesh

The moment A.K.M. Fazlul Haque learnt that the government had declared two wetlands -Bharardaho Beel and Patuakamri Beel - located in Bangladesh's northern district of Rangpur as the Special Biodiversity Conservation Area, he smiled with relief, he said. "Our years-long conservation efforts have paid off," was his immediate response. In Bangladesh, a beel is defined as a large topographically low area that accumulates surface runoff water. As a …