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bio-diversity to launching the Wetland Conservation and
‘Wetlands of India’ web portal Management (CWCM) to
giving details on wetlands of address specific research needs
the country, the Government and knowledge gaps have been
is taking innovative measures noteworthy. There is an overall
towards wetland rejuvenation. increase of 49 wetlands to date,
New initiatives such as National which were merely 26 before
Wetland Decadal Change 2014.
Atlas prepared by the Space The Ramsar Sites in India
Applications Centre (SAC), are highly diverse. While the
Ahmedabad highlighting the smallest Ramsar Site is just
changes that happened in 19.75 ha in area (Vembannur),
Wetlands across the country the largest, the Sunderbans,
in the past decade and the spans 0.42 million ha. With
establishment of a Centre for such an expansive cover and
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