Gogabeel: Bihar’s First Community Reserve
- Gogabeel, an ox-bow lake in Bihar’s Katihar district, has been declared as the state’s first ‘Community Reserve’. The water body was notified as a 57 hectare Community Reserve and a 30 hectare ‘Conservation Reserve’ on August 2, 2019.
- Gogabeel is formed from the flow of the rivers Mahananda and Kankhar in the north and the Ganga in the south and east.
- It is the fifteenth Protected Area (PA) in Bihar.
- In 2004, Gogabeel, including the neighbouringBagharBeel and BaldiaChaur, were given the status of an IBA (Important Bird Area of India) by the IBCN.
- Gogabeel is a permanent waterbody, although it shrinks to some extent ....
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