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Ramsar Sites in India

Ramsar Sites are the wetlands that have international importance. The term was coined when the International Treaty for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed at a city of Iran called Ramsar in 1971.

Ramsar Sites in India

Ramsar Sites in India – Latest Addition

The following sites have been added as the recognized Ramsar Sites in India:

  • Maharashtra – Lonar Lake
  • Agra (Uttar Pradesh) – Sur Sarovar also called, Keetham Lake
  • Uttarakhand – Asan Barrage
  • Bihar – Kanwar Lake or Kabal Taal

Facts about Ramsar Sites & Indian Wetlands:

Other Interesting Facts about the Ramsar sites:

  • Ramsar sites are one of the major protected areas in the world.
  • There are currently over 2400 Ramsar sites in the world covering an area of 2.5 million sq. kilometres.
  • World’s First Ramsar site was identified in 1974, which was the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia.
  • The United Kingdom has the world’s largest number of Ramsar sites i.e 175.
  • February 2 is celebrated as International Wetlands Day as the Ramsar Convention was signed on February 2, 1971.
  • The Ramsar Convention works with the collaboration of the following organizations:
    1. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
    2. Birdlife International.
    3. International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
    4. Wetlands International.
    5. Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)
    6. WWF International
  • To research any of the Ramsar sites, one can check the Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS)
  • The number of contracting parties for the Ramsar Convention as of October 2019 is 171.

List of Ramsar Sites in India

The Ramsar Convention was signed in 1971 with the aim of “conservation and wise use of wetlands with local, national and international cooperation for overall sustainable development of the world”.

The Ramsar sites are maintained in Montreux Record to track any major ecological changes that might affect any of the wetland sites positively or in a reverse way.

The Ramsar convention entered into force in India on 1 February 1982. The 14 new Ramsar sites of India announced by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) includes:

  • Sur Sarovar, Nawabganj, Parvati Agra, Saman, Samaspur, Sandi and Sarsai Nawar (Uttar Pradesh)
  • Lonar Lake, Nandur Madhameshwar (Maharashtra)
  • Keshopur-Miani, Beas Conservation Reserve and Nangal (Punjab)
  • Asan Barrage (Uttarakhand)
  • Kanwar/Kabal Lake (Bihar)

The Sunderban Reserve Forest (Sunderban Wetlands) also recently made its entry into the list of Ramsar sites in India on 1st February 2020.

India currently has 41 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites), with a surface area of 1,071, 861 hectares.


Source



S.No Ramsar Sites in India State-Location
1 Ashtamudi Wetland Kerala
2 Beas Conservation Reserve Punjab
3 Bhitarkanika Mangroves Odisha
4 Bhoj Wetlands Madhya Pradesh
5 Chandra Taal Himachal Pradesh
6 Chilika Lake Odisha
7 Deepor Beel Assam
8 East Kolkata Wetlands West Bengal
9 Harike Wetlands Punjab
10 Hokera Wetland Jammu & Kashmir
11 Kanjli Wetland Punjab
12 Keoladeo National Park Rajasthan
13 Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve Punjab
14 Kolleru lake Andhra Pradesh
15 Loktak lake Manipur
16 Nalsarovar Bird sanctuary Gujarat
17 Nandur Madhameshwar Maharashtra
18 Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary Punjab
19 Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
20 Parvati Agra Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
21 Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
22 Pong Dam lake Himachal Pradesh
23 Renuka lake Himachal Pradesh
24 Ropar Wetland Punjab
25 Rudrasagar Lake Tripura
25 Saman Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
26 Samaspur Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
27 Sambhar lake Rajasthan
28 Sandi Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
29 Sarsai Nawar Jheel Uttar Pradesh
30 Sasthamkotta lake Kerala
31 Surinsar-Mansar lakes Jammu & Kashmir
32 Tsomoriri Jammu & Kashmir
33 Upper Ganga river Uttar Pradesh
34 Vembanad Kol Wetland Kerala
35 Wular lake Jammu & Kashmir
36 Sunderban Wetland West Bengal
37 Asan Barrage Bihar
38 Kanwar Lake or Kabal Taal Bihar
39 Lonar Lake Maharashtra
40 Sur Sarovar Uttar Pradesh

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