Nagaon district is located in the middle part of Assam which is endowed with highest number of wetland resources within Assam among all other districts of the state. Most of the wetlands of this district are located in agricultural environment. These wetlands have been considered as most productive area for food and fodder production. Samaguri beel which is an oxbow shaped wetland located in agricultural environment 20 kms away from Nagaon town in the eastward side. Due to ever increasing population growth of the surrounding villages of the wetland area have created tremendous pressure on wetland environment.. The alarming human dependency upon wetlands and several developmental activities lead to landuse change on the surrounding wetland environment and have created threat to geo-ecological characteristic of the beels and in this way the natural ecosystems have lost much of their original character, leading to reduce biodiversity and reduce performance and productivity. Hence, the present paper is an attempt to identify what changes have been took place under the influence of developmental activity within wetland environment and to suggest conservative plan. The changes have been identified based on the comparison of topographical map, different period of remote sensing data, google earth image and field data collected from Samaguri beel.

Agriculture landuse pattern, landuse change, , population growth, wetland ecology, management plan