Water world
- POSTED ON: 4 Feb, 2023
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- POSTED BY: R. Krithika | Bhavya Venkatesh
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February 2 is World Wetlands Day. This is a day celebrated every year to raise awareness about the vital role of wetlands and the need to restore and protect them. The date marks the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971, in the city of Ramsar in Iran.
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water or saturated with water either permanently or seasonally. They include swamps, marshes, bogs, mangroves, lakes, rivers, floodplains and so on.
Wetlands that are of ecological, biological and hydrological importance are identified and designated as Ramsar sites. There are over 2,400 Ramsar sites in the world, covering more than 2.5 million square km. India has 75 of them, including 19 that were added in 2022. At 14, Tamil Nadu has the highest number of sites in the country, followed by Uttar Pradesh at 10.
Click on the hotspots in the map to learn about some fascinating Ramsar sites in India.
Map not drawn to scale.