India has added Tso Kar Wetland Complex in Ladakh as its 42nd Ramsar site, which is a second one in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh. Expressing happiness, Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar shared this information in a tweet message.
The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude wetland complex, consisting of two principal waterbodies, Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater lake of about 438 hectares to the south, and Tso Kar itself, a hypersaline lake of 1800 hectares to the north, situated in the Changthang region of Ladakh, India. It is called Tso Kar, meaning white lake, because of the white salt efflorescence found on the margins due to the evaporation of highly saline water. The Tso Kar Basin is an A1 Category Important Bird Area (IBA) as per Bird Life International and a key staging site in the Central Asian Flyway. The site is also one of the most important breeding areas of the Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) in India. This IBA is also the major breeding area for Great Crested Grebe (Podicepscristatus), Bar-headed Geese (Anserindicus), Ruddy Shelduck (Tadornaferruginea), Brown-headed Gull (Larusbrunnicephalus), Lesser Sand-Plover (Charadriusmongolus) and many other species.
Which of the following sites in India is not included in the Ramsar Wetland List?
Correct Answer :
Dal Lake, Jammu and Kashmir
Solution :
The correct option is Dal Lake, Jammu and Kashmir.
A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, an international environmental treaty established in 1971 by UNESCO.
Let us analyze the given options regarding their inclusion in the Ramsar Wetland List:
1. Asan Conservation Reserve (Uttarakhand): Added to the Ramsar list in October 2020 as Uttarakhand's first Ramsar site.
2. Kabartal Wetland / Kanwar Lake (Bihar): Designated as a Ramsar site in July 2020 as Bihar's first Ramsar site.
3. Lonar Lake (Maharashtra): Designated as a Ramsar site in November 2020.
4. Dal Lake (Jammu and Kashmir): Dal Lake is an famous urban lake located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, but it is not designated as a Ramsar site.
Therefore, among the choices provided, Dal Lake is the site that is not included in the Ramsar Wetland List.
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