Wetlands

Wetlands are where the land is covered in water, salt, fresh, or somewhere in between. Swamps and ponds, lakes and ocean rims, delta of estuaries, lowlands where flooding frequently occurs - all these are wetlands.

Destruction of wetlands is a concern because it is the most productive habitat on the planet. They usually support high concentrations of animals (including mammals, birds, fish, invertebrates) and function as seed beds for many of these species. Wetlands are also supporting the cultivation of rice, the staple food of half of the world's population. They provide a range of human beneficial ecosystem services including water filtration, storm prevention, flood control and recreation.

Without wetlands, cities need to spend more money to handle water for citizens. The World Nature Conservation Fund, Government and other organizations have continued their efforts to protect and protect wetlands for more than 40 years through the Ramsar Convention, the only international treaty specializing in a single ecosystem. Through the Convention we protected more than 476,000 acres of wetlands and preserved these wetlands and their services for future generations

There are few officials who know that "the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Standing Committee" has approved the theme "wetland for the future of sustainable cities" as the theme of the 2018 World Wetland Day. If the government does not protect the Ramsar site, we can understand the situation of wetland management in India and the situation of other wetlands. When India's overall environmental performance index reaches a record low due to policy barriers and failure of the enforcement of environmental laws, the current coalition government provides a license for which ecological attributes can not be easily resolved please. The Government of India revised the "Indian Forest Law", "Wetland Protection Law", "Wildlife Protection Law" etc.

The current state of wetlands is constantly changing. Wetland recovery seems to have increased since the wetland management program in the 1980s. Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of acres of wetlands are being discharged annually, despite efforts to protect the land. Southeastern state wetland losses including Florida accounted for 89% of the same wetland loss nationwide from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Wetlands resume recovery of degraded wetlands or restore damaged wetlands. Recovery is done in already or still wet land. In general terms related to recovery are "extended". Enhanced wetlands are existing wetlands that have often been modified to improve specific functions at the expense of other functions. For example, adding places to increase the use of specific birds often limits their use as habitats of other species. (For information on the function of wetlands, see the volumetric hydrology, water quality and related functions of this wetland and the function, value and appraisal of wetlands in this volume.)