Environment and Disaster Management › Protected areas and habitats

Wetlands and Ramsar sites

Wetlands and lakes as places: what a listing changes, encroachment, and the floodplains that decide their fate. Prelims has matched wetlands to their States and asked what the Montreux Record implies.

Foundation note: Wetlands: the Rules, Ramsar and the Montreux Record

UPSC has asked

Prelims 2022: matching named wetlands with their States
Prelims 2022: the wetland function that makes wetlands the kidneys of the Earth

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