Water lily

Gone are the days when Laal Shaplar Beel in Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila was full of water lilies. The wetland now runs dry as water from the beel was pumped out for catching fish. Photo: TBS
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Water lilies in Sylhet’s Laal Shaplar Beel destroyed for catching fish

The beel protection committee president and secretary allegedly pumped out all the water from a beel in DibirHaor to catch fish worth Tk30 lakh