Five more Indian wetlands get international tag of Ramsar sites

Five more Indian wetlands get international tag of Ramsar sites

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Category : National Published on: July 28 2022

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Five more wetlands of India have got international importance tag of Ramsar sites, making it a total of 54 such spots in the country.
The newly designated sites are Karikili Bird Sanctuary, Pallikaranai Marsh Reserve Forest and Pichavaram Mangrove in Tamil Nadu; Pala wetland in Mizoram; and Sakhya Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.
On the occasion of World Wetlands Day on 2 February, India added Khijadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat and Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh to the list of Ramsar sites in India.
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an international treaty, aims at the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands. Named after the city of Ramsar in Iran, the convention was signed in 1971.

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