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Wetlands and Ramsar sites

Wetlands and lakes as places and as a category of law: Ramsar sites and the wise use a listing commits India to, the rules that protect a wetland at home, and the encroachment and floodplains that decide its fate. Prelims has matched wetlands to their States and asked what the Montreux Record implies.

UPSC has asked

  • Prelims 2022: matching named wetlands with their States
  • Prelims 2022: the wetland function that makes wetlands the kidneys of the Earth
  • Prelims 2014: what the Montreux Record implies

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