RAMSAR SITES IN NEWS 2020 AND KEY STATIC FACTS

🔷 Ladakh’s Tso Kar wetland complex added to list of Ramsar sites

🔷 Lonar Lake in Buldhana district of Maharashtra selected under ‘Ramsar site’

🔷 Keetham lake, also known as Sur Sarovar, in Agra of Uttar Pradesh added to Ramsar sites

🔷 Asan Conservation Reserve gets first Ramsar site tag from Uttarakhand, Dehradun district

🔷 Kabartal Wetland becomes Bihar’s first Ramsar site, Begusarai district

💠 There are 42 Ramsar sites in India

💠 Ramsar Convention or the Convention of Wetlands was established in 1971 and came into force in the year 1975, upon receipt by UNESCO

💠 India signed the Ramsar Convention on 1 February 1982

💠 Ramsar convention came into force on 1 December 1975.

💠 Cobourg Peninsula in Australia was declared the first Ramsar site in the world

💠 Chilika Lake is the largest Ramsar Site of India

💠 Chilika Lake (Orissa) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) were recognized as the first Ramsar Sites of India.

💠 Uttar Pradesh has the largest number of Ramsar Sites in India with 8 Indian Wetlands

💠 Renuka Wetland in Himachal Pradesh is the smallest wetland of India

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