{"id":103480,"date":"2020-10-28T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T07:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=103480"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:57:20","slug":"uttarakhands-first-ramsar-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/uttarakhands-first-ramsar-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand\u2019s first Ramsar Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: In which of the following state Asan Conservation Reserve is located?<br><\/strong>a) Karnataka<br>b) Maharashtra<br>c) Kerala<br>d) Uttarakhand<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 15 October 2020;  Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that Asan Conservation Reserve has become Uttarakhand&#8217;s first Ramsar site.<\/li><li>The Reserve is located on the banks of Yamuna River near Dehradun district in Garhwali region of the Himalayan state.<\/li><li>With this declaration, this reserve became the Wetland of International Importance.<\/li><li>With this, the number of Ramsar sites in India goes up to 38, the highest in South Asia and Uttarakhand gets its first Ramsar site.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>It cleared the category on species and ecological communities, one on water-birds and another on fish.<\/li><li><strong>The criteria cleared by Asan Conservation Reserve to get Ramsar site tag to include that-<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i. It supports vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered species.<br>ii. It supports populations of plant and\/or animal species important for maintaining the biological diversity,<br>iii. It supports plant and\/or animal species at a critical stage in their life cycles and-<br>iv. It is an important source of food for fishes, spawning ground, nursery and\/or migration path on which fish stocks, either within the wetland or elsewhere, depend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ramsar Convention on Wetlands<\/strong><\/li><li>Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is an intergovernmental treaty adopted on February 2, 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar.<\/li><li>The name of the Convention is usually written Convention on Wetlands.<\/li><li>The Convention on Wetlands came into force for India on February 1, 1982.<\/li><li>Those wetlands which are of international importance are declared as Ramsar sites.<\/li><li><strong>Asan Conservation Reserve<\/strong>:<\/li><li>Asan Conservation reserve is spread across 4.44 sq km area in Dehradun district on the banks of Yamuna River.<\/li><li>Asan receives about 40 migratory species, including Rudy Shelduck, Common coot, Gadwall, Kingfisher, Indian cormorant, Baer\u2019s pochard, Northern pintail, Bar-headed goose.<\/li><li>Many endangered birds are found here and some even migrate to the Reserve, making it an ecologically important site.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/asan-conservation-reserve-becomes-uttarakhand-s-first-ramsar-site\/story-cDnNE6eCzPYTLvbGr3zk7N.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/asan-conservation-reserve-becomes-uttarakhand-s-first-ramsar-site\/story-cDnNE6eCzPYTLvbGr3zk7N.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In which of the following state Asan Conservation Reserve is located?a) Karnatakab) Maharashtrac) Keralad) UttarakhandAnswer: (d)Related Facts:- On 15 October 2020; Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that Asan Conservation Reserve has become Uttarakhand&#8217;s first Ramsar site. 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