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• Asan Conservation Reserve has become Uttarakhand’s first Ramsar site, making it a ‘Wetland of International Importance’.
• This will be India’s 38^th Ramsar site.

Q) Which of the following water bodies/wetlands in India are not part of Montreux Record?

1. Loktak Lake
2. Chandratal
3. Tso Moriri
4. Keoladeo National Park

Choose the correct answer

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 1,2 and 3
3. 2 and 3 only
4. All of the above

The Ramsar convention

• The Ramsar Convention is one of the oldest inter-governmental accords signed to preserve the ecological character of wetlands of international importance in the signatory countries.

• The aim of the Ramsar list is to develop and sustain a network of wetlands by maintaining components of their ecosystem and processes.
• The wetlands declared as Ramsar sites   are protected under strict guidelines of   the convention.

The Ramsar sites

• The Ramsar List is the world’s largest network of protected areas.
• There are over 2,400 Ramsar Sites on the territories of 171 Convention Contracting Parties across the world, covering more than 2.5 million square kilometres.
• With the addition of these ten sites, the total protected wetland area in the country now covers a surface area of 1,067,939 hectares or 10,679 sq km

• The Asan Conservation Reserve is located on the banks of Yamuna river near Dehradun district in Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.
• Area – 4.44 sq km
• Asan Conservation Reserve cleared five out of the nine criteria needed to be declared as a Ramsar site and get identified as a Wetland of International Importance.

Birds

• Asan receives about 40 migratory species –
• Rudy Shelduck, Red Crested Pochard ,
• Common coot, Gadwall, Kingfisher, Indian cormorant,
• Baer’s pochard, Northern pintail, Bar-headed goose.
• Many endangered birds are found here + migratoty birds – make it an ecologically important site.

Q) Which of the following water bodies/wetlands in India are not part of Montreux Record?

1. Loktak Lake
2. Chandratal
3. Tso Moriri
4. Keoladeo National Park

Choose the correct answer

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 1,2 and 3
3. 2 and 3 only
4. All of the above

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