Environment and Disaster Management › Protected areas and habitats
हिन्दी — Read in HindiMarine and coastal ecosystems
Coasts and seas as ecosystems: mangroves, seagrass, estuaries and lagoons, coastal regulation and erosion, marine protected areas and the treaties for the high seas. Prelims has asked what blue carbon is and where India has coral reefs.
Foundation note: Coral reefs of India
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2026: why mangroves matter for climate resilience
- Prelims 2016: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
Also filed elsewhere
- India's deep sea mining programme · on Ocean, polar and earth science missions
India's deep sea mining programme explores the seabed for minerals under three International Seabed Authority contracts.