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Tanguar haor (Bengali: টাঙ্গুয়ার হাওর), (also called Tangua haor), located in the Dharmapasha and Tahirpur upazilas of Sunamganj District in Bangladesh, is a unique wetland ecosystem of national importance and has come into international focus. The area of 'Tanguar Haor' including 46 villages within the haor is about 100 sqkm of which 2,802.36 sqhactare is wetland. It is the source of livelihood for more than 40,000 people.

Tanguar haor plays an important role in fish production as it functions as a 'mother fishery' for the country. Nearly 200 species of wetland flora, 141 species of fishes(which is half of Bangladesh’s total fish species and 55 of them are listed in threatened categories by IUCN), 11 amphibians, 34 reptiles (including 6 turtles, 7 lizards and 21 snake species) and 34 mammal species are found in this unique ecosystem.

Tangaur haor sits in the important flyway of migratory birds and offers excellent staging ground for them. Every year near about a million of migratory birds visit the haor and that comprise about 98 species.

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It was Christmas eve, and everywhere shops were hoarding their presumed or genuine sale, and everywhere people were buzzing to shop to shop, window to window for last minute shopping. Amongst all these brazen commercial clutter these three kids were immersed in a world of their own, as if the material world surrounding them did not exist at all.

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