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Ramgarh Taal notified as Uttar Pradesh’s 1st ‘protected’ wetland

Uttar Pradesh Geography and Environment
  • Published on: 06-Dec-18
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Ramgarh Taal notified as Uttar Pradesh’s 1st ‘protected’ wetland
  • For the first time, Uttar Pradesh has started notifying its wetlands lying outside the forest area and bird sanctuaries and declaring them as ‘protected’ wetlands.
  • The Ramgarh Taal in Gorakhpur has become the first notified and ‘protected’ wetland in the country which lies outside forest, and within city limits. UP has about 1.2 lakh wetlands that lie outside forest and around 500 that lie within. After being declared a ‘protected’ wetland, efforts have started to conserve the 684 hectare water body. The second process after notifying it as protected is to prohibit and restrict activities that are threatening to it in nature.
  • There will be sewage treatment plants, incinerators and mechanism to segregate solid waste to reduce pollution in the wetland. It will also get excess and exclusive funds for management.
  • In a similar exercise, at least 18 more wetlands outside forest and protected areas will be notified and declared as ‘protected’. Two wetlands lying in each of the nine agro-climatic zones in the state would be chosen in the first phase.
  • According to national wetland atlas that is based on satellite data, out of 1.2 lakh wetlands in UP at least 23,800 are more than 2.2 hectare in area and need conservation. When we go by revenue records, there are at least 26,000 wetlands that are bigger than 2.2 hectare.
  • The conservation effort will also involve developing a connect between people and wetlands like promoting eco-tourism, fisheries and other economic activities.
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