Ramsar Sites – an international convention on Wetlands was signed in February 1971 in Ramsar (Iran) under the auspices of UNESCO. India became one of the contracting parties to the Ramsar ...

Three new wetlands have got the Ramsar site tag taking the total tally of Ramsar wetlands to 85 in India, Union environment minister, Bhupender Yadav said ahead of 78th Independence Day.

Images can be powerful through their impact or beauty or illustrate an environmental or conservation story that reveals the importance of wetlands for nature and/or for people. Raj Mohan (India) ...

Cognizant is shelling out over ₹2.7 crore ($360,000) to try and save one of the last remaining natural marshlands in the world — the Pallikaranai wetland — by restoring the Sembakkam Lake in ...