Spread across India and Bangladesh over 1 million ha area, Sunderban is the world's largest single contiguous mangrove swamp. The Indian part received its formal designation yesterday thus bringing the entire swamp under the ambit of Ramsar wise use framework.
three World Heritage Sites
A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. It provides for national action and international cooperation regarding the conservation of wetlands, and wise sustainable use of their resources.
Bangladesh possesses enormous area of wetlands including rivers and streams, freshwater lakes and marshes, haors, baors, beels, water storage reservoirs, fish ponds, flooded cultivated fields and estuarine systems with extensive mangrove swamps. Wetlands of coastal and marine origin are less important in Bangladesh.
Which among the following is a manmade Ramsar site? Notes: Harike Wetland and the lake were formed by constructing the head works across the Sutlej river, in 1953.
The countries with the most Sites are the United Kingdom with 175 and Mexico with 142. Bolivia has the largest area with 148,000 square km under the Convention protection; Canada, Chad, Congo and the Russian Federation have also each designated over 100,000 square km.
On 2 February 1971, the International Treaty for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed at a city of Iran called Ramsar, hence the name Ramsar Sites. 1- Ramsar Convention or the Convention of Wetlands was established in 1971 and came into force in the year 1975, upon receipt by UNESCO.
Answer: Spot Bill Duck and Comb Duck are local species or 'permanent residents' of Hakaluki Haor and Grey Headed Lapwing is a Siberian bird. Hakaluki haor is spread over Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts.
The haor falls under two administrative districts, Maulvubazar and Sylhet. Some 190,000 people live in the area surrounding the haor. Hakaluki Haor is an important source of fisheries resources for Bangladesh.
Hakaluki Haor is 65km away from Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila so tourists can reach there by cng from Moulvibazar. Direct buses are available from Dhaka to Moulvibazar.
It provides a wide range of economic and non-economic benefits to the local people as well as to the people of Bangladesh. These include fish production, rice production, cattle, and buffalo rearing and many more. Hakaluki Haor was designated an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA).
Hakaluki Haor is one of the Bangladesh's largest and one of Asia's larger wetland resource. It is the home of numerous animals, fishes and birds and a large variety of flora and fauna. There are different kind of rare plants, animals, birds you will find here.
Currently, 48 sites were listed in the Montreux Record. Indian sites in the like Keoladeo National Park-Rajasthan, Loktak Lake – Manipur are included in Montreux Record.
“Of total 12 wetlands in Punjab, six are now Ramsar sites.
A wetland complex consists of two or more individual wetlands with overlapping riparian management areas or more. So, the correct option is 'Set of wetlands dependent on each other'. Answer verified by Toppr.
