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India now has 103 Ramsar sites. Two were added — Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh.
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Sukhna Wetland, Chandigarh
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What is it?
- A man-made reservoir and freshwater wetland on the edge of Chandigarh
- Ramsar Site number 2602
- Sits at the foot of the Shivalik range, the outer Himalayas
- It acts as both a water regulator and an urban wildlife refuge
Sauj Jheel, Uttar Pradesh
What is it?
- A perennial shallow floodplain lake
- Ramsar Site number 2603
- An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA)
- Located in Mainpuri district, near Kishni, in the Indo-Gangetic floodplain
Important Facts for Examsmost asked
- Mainpuri is the only district in India with two Ramsar sites — the other is Saman Bird Sanctuary (2019)
- Uttar Pradesh has 14 Ramsar sites, the highest for any state; Tamil Nadu is close behind
- India has the third-highest number of Ramsar sites in the world, after the UK and Mexico, and the most in Asia
- The Ramsar Convention was signed at Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, and came into force in 1975. It is the oldest of the modern global environmental treaties
- India joined in 1982; its first sites were Chilika Lake (Odisha) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan)
- World Wetlands Day: 2 February
