With 50% increase, it's been a good year for wetlands in India
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Good news
Amid the gloom and doom of the pandemic, the number of protected wetlands in India under the Ramsar Convention increased by 50% in one year, taking the number of such sites of international importance from 27 in 2019 to 41 this year, reported Times of India.
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Bihar's first Ramsar site
Recently Bihar got its first Ramsar site. Kabartal in Begusarai became wetland of International importance.
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Supporting migratory birds
Wetlands are the land areas covered by water, either seasonally or permanently. It support lakhs of migratory birds from colder regions of the world in summers.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands.
It is named after the Iranian city of Ramsar, on the Caspian Sea, where the treaty was signed on February 2, 1971.
It is named after the Iranian city of Ramsar, on the Caspian Sea, where the treaty was signed on February 2, 1971.
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Other sites
The Ramsar sites in India include Chilika Lake in Odisha, Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, Harike Lake in Punjab, Loktak Lake in Manipur and Wular Lake in Jammu and Kashmir.
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