How locals are trying to save the dying Deepor Beel

Some initiatives, along with bettering the health of the beel, have also provided employment to women from the community

What is killing Uttarakhand’s small wetlands? Degraded Niranjanpur pond carves a live example

These waterbodies are neglected for their size and disappear even before they are documented

Budget 2023-24: ‘Amrit Dharohar’ to encourage conservation of vital wetlands in India

Scheme to promote wetland conservation through community participation

Conservation of shallow water bodies: Ecological consequences due to multiple anthropogenic stressors

The United Nations declared 2021-2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Water birds on the rise, but it is not all good news

Expert speaks to Down To Earth on the findings of Day 1 of the Asia Water bird Census

One more to go

There are no revenue records for a wetland in Srinagar. Is that why it is being encroached and constructed upon by the government?

Dying for a wetland

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

Coastal wetlands prevented property loss worth $625 million during 2012 Hurricane Sandy: study

During Hurricane Sandy, coastal wetlands reduced the damage in 12 states in northeastern US by 1 per cent

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 7, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary faces threats

The lake plays a vital role in absorbing carbon, which in turn, mitigates the effects of global warming

Caught in the wet

Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs

Agencies working towards making Haiderpur wetland in west UP a Ramsar site

Haidepur is significant as it supports rich biodiversity, offers livelihood opportunities for locals

Centre proposes controls over wetlands

Regulations not enough to conserve marshes and lakes, say experts

Unique programme in Bangladesh shows the way to wetland management

The project to conserve the biodiversity of the Tanguar Haor in northeastern Bangladesh has brought rewards

Top 5 facts you should know about the largest transboundary Ramsar Site

The Congo Basin, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, is now home to the largest transboundary Ramsar Site

Road construction projects are destroying Goa's traditional wetlands

Intensive infrastructure projects in Goa are threatening a unique wetland system that protects the state from flooding

NGT probe into cruise operating in Bhopal Ramsar wetland

Pollution control authorities directed to monitor contamination by ship periodically

Schools, libraries, clinics all come floating on boats

When roads in the Chalan Beel region of Bangladesh are submerged during monsoon, these boats serve as the lifeline

Rising methane could be a sign that Earth’s climate is part-way through a ‘termination-level transition’

Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO₂ but lasts in the atmosphere for slightly less than a decade

Don’t blame just climate change; ‘haor’ destruction also behind Sylhet floods: Experts

Sylhet’s traditional wetlands, which act as sponges absorbing surface runoff, have been destroyed, thereby enabling the current floods, they say

Brazilian scientists warn that the Pantanal is at risk of collapse

Once a model for sustainable land use, scientists alert world to “the tragedy of the commons” afflicting one of Earth’s most …

Wetland protection policy needs to be strengthened: Javadekar

On the occasion of World Wetlands Day, the Environment Minister reviews India's regulatory framework for wetlands

How an entrepreneur saved Kerala wetland ecosystem from real estate interest

The Supreme Court ordered Taurus Investment Holdings to not undertake reclamation or filling up of Veli-Akkulam wetlands on June 4

Only Ramsar site in Bihar neglected and on verge of drying up

Bird hunting, land acquisition threaten Kawar lake even as state government proposes other sites for declaration