RAMSAR SITES IN NEWS 2020 AND KEY STATIC FACTS

 🟢 RAMSAR SITES IN NEWS 2020 AND KEY STATIC FACTS 



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


🔷 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.


💠 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


  🔶Credit : Kumar Kaushal🔶


    

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