Conservation And Management Of Wetland Resources : Case Study Of Goghat-I Block, Hooghly

Abstract

Water is one of the main components of biosphere covering about 71% of the earth surface. But water scarcity has been a major threat of present day society. If we want to live a life with abundant water as well as healthy environment , we have to conserve and save the wetlands to store the rain water, surface water into it and use this water for irrigation, fishery and other economic purposes. The water of wetlands also can be used as drinking water by filtering in scientific way.So, this present study is mainly emphasizes on the threats faced by the wetlands and attempts to describe the conservation of wetlands along with their flora, fauna and other resources and finally management strategies have been prescribed so that the people living around the wetlands get benefitted socially as well as economically.