The special committee for the East Calcutta wetlands had received a proposal from the environment department, pushing for changes in the existing map (as reported in Metro in November 2003). The ...

The National Wetland Atlas 20111 (hereafter the Atlas) had the objective to map all types of wetlands and to become a national database by bringing out state-wise detailed publications. The Atlas, ...

India's most beautiful wetlands, including J&K’s Wular lake and Mirgund, the Mumbai coastal mangroves, and those in East Kolkata - are dying under pressure from real estate and pollution.

MANGALORE: Wetlands are the transitional zones between permanently aquatic and dry terrestrial ecosystems. mangalore: wetlands are the transitional zones between permanently aquatic and dry ...

The Centre has sought details of wetlands in various states, including West Bengal, to digitally map wetlands across the country. This was informed to the division bench of chief justice of ...

Across India, lakes, ponds, and wetlands have long been more than just water bodies. They’ve been places of life from which ...

Navi Mumbai: Environmentalists have challenged the City Industrial and Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd's (CIDCO) ...

You can put your neighbourhood on the map by clicking and uploading observations of dragonfly and damselfly on the Dragonfly Festival 2023 Project on India Biodiversity Portal’s app or website ...

India has lost nearly two of every five wetlands to subsidence in the last 30 years -- a shocking statistic in the backdrop of our pride in announcing 75 Ramsar sites to mark 75 years of Independence ...

India's bristle worms are often overlooked. But they are crucial to the health of the country's wetlands – so local women are working to catch the poachers decimating their population.

Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated.

India's most beautiful wetlands, including J&K’s Wular lake and Mirgund, the Mumbai coastal mangroves, and those in East Kolkata - are dying under pressure from real estate and pollution.