India News: The Supreme Court halts construction activities around Nagpur's Futala lake, a heritage wetland. Maharashtra government claimed the lake was man-made,
India’s ‘National Wetland Decadal Change Atlas’ was released on World Wetlands Day 2022 on 2 February. Formally named as ‘Space-Based Observation of Indian Wetlands’, the Atlas is documentation of wetlands across India, especially regarding the changes
Terming it "excellent news", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded the fact that India has established the largest network of Ramsar Sites in South Asia."Excellent News! India having the largest network of Ramsar Sites .
There has been an addition of 14,823 new wetlands with an area of 0.36 Mha between 2006-07 and 2017-18, while a total of 1,342 wetlands covering an area of 0.025 Mha have disappeared, according to an updated Wetlands Atlas launched on .