By PTI
NEW DELHI: Eleven Indian websites have been added to the Ramsar checklist, taking the variety of wetlands of worldwide significance within the nation to 75 within the seventy fifth yr of Independence, the Union Environment Ministry mentioned on Saturday.
The Ramsar checklist goals at “developing and maintaining an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the maintenance of their ecosystem components, processes and benefits”.
Of the 11 websites, 4 are in Tamil Nadu, three in Odisha, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one every in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
A complete of 26 websites have been added to the Ramsar checklist from 1982 to 2013.
Since 2014, 49 websites have bagged the coveted tag.
Twenty-eight Indian websites have been declared wetlands of worldwide significance this yr itself.
The new Indian wetlands of worldwide significance are Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary, Suchindram Theroor Wetland Complex, Vaduvur Bird Sanctuary and Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu; Tampara Lake, Hirakud Reservoir and Ansupa Lake in Odisha; Hygam Wetland Conservation Reserve and Shallbugh Wetland Conservation Reserve in Jammu and Kashmir; Thane Creek in Maharashtra and Yashwant Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.
“The designation of these sites would help in conservation and management of wetlands and wise use of their resources,” the setting ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Tamil Nadu has the utmost variety of Ramsar websites (14), adopted by Uttar Pradesh (10).
The 75 Ramsar websites within the nation cowl an space of 13,26,677 hectares.
India is likely one of the contracting events to the Ramsar Convention, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971.
New Delhi signed it on February 1, 1982.
NEW DELHI: Eleven Indian websites have been added to the Ramsar checklist, taking the variety of wetlands of worldwide significance within the nation to 75 within the seventy fifth yr of Independence, the Union Environment Ministry mentioned on Saturday.
The Ramsar checklist goals at “developing and maintaining an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the maintenance of their ecosystem components, processes and benefits”.
Of the 11 websites, 4 are in Tamil Nadu, three in Odisha, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one every in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
A complete of 26 websites have been added to the Ramsar checklist from 1982 to 2013.
Since 2014, 49 websites have bagged the coveted tag.
Twenty-eight Indian websites have been declared wetlands of worldwide significance this yr itself.
The new Indian wetlands of worldwide significance are Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary, Suchindram Theroor Wetland Complex, Vaduvur Bird Sanctuary and Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu; Tampara Lake, Hirakud Reservoir and Ansupa Lake in Odisha; Hygam Wetland Conservation Reserve and Shallbugh Wetland Conservation Reserve in Jammu and Kashmir; Thane Creek in Maharashtra and Yashwant Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.
“The designation of these sites would help in conservation and management of wetlands and wise use of their resources,” the setting ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Tamil Nadu has the utmost variety of Ramsar websites (14), adopted by Uttar Pradesh (10).
The 75 Ramsar websites within the nation cowl an space of 13,26,677 hectares.
India is likely one of the contracting events to the Ramsar Convention, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971.
New Delhi signed it on February 1, 1982.
