(This article first appeared in The Wire on August 4, 2022)
- India is on a Ramsar site designation spree. On August 3, India designated 10 additional Ramsar sites – which marks them as wetlands of international importance – across the country. This comes just a week after India designated five wetlands – in Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Madhya Pradesh – as Ramsar sites. India’s total tally of Ramsar sites is now 64, fast approaching the target of 75 that the Union environment ministry promised to celebrate 75 years of India’s independence with this year…