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Welcome to the site of Wetlands International South-Asia
Welcome to the website of the South Asia Programme of Wetlands International, the only global NGO dedicated to sustaining and restoring wetlands. This is the subsite for the South-Asia region (India, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan) of the global site www.wetlands.org. This sub-site is maintained by our office in New Delhi, India.
Choose a topic of your interest on the block menu above the banner for more information on wetlands and Wetlands International, our office, our work including our clickable map with projects, news and publications.
Feel free to contact us if you need further information.
A-25, Second Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi - 110024, INDIA
Tel: 91 11 24338906, 32927908
Fax: 91 11 24338906
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Wetlands and Livelihoods Programme (WLP)
This project focusses on the mainstreaming of sustainable wetland management principles and practice into the development of poverty reduction strategies through local and international partnerships in DAC1 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It will do this by enhancing of existing and supporting development of new policies at local, national and international levels, with specific ... Read more...
Management Planning for Wular Lake, Kashmir
This project focuses on Wular Lake, one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia. Rapid degradation of Wular Lake has an enormous impact on community health and livelihoods. This prompted the state government to contract Wetlands International and her partners (WISA) to develop an integrated management plan for restoration of the lake and its catchment. Read more...
Vulnerability mapping to incursion by highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1
WISA (Wetlands International South Asia) and UNICEF-India worked on a two month desk study to review and map available information in relationship to water bird concentrations and poultry productions, with an objective of prioritizing regions for Avian Influenza awareness raising activities under current programes of UNICEF and Ministry of Agriculture. Read more...
Economic Valuation of Chilika Lake, Orissa
The project aimed at valuing the ecosystem services of Chilika Lake to assess their contribution to local and regional economy; assess impacts of developmental activities on these services. Proposed are a review of current management plans, alternate strategies to ensure sustained provisioning for overall livelihood security of the wetland dependant communities. Read more...
Chilika Lagoon, India
Wetlands International conducted the monitoring and research, choosing the best flow regime. In this way, a very important lake for man and nature was managed in a sustainable way. Read more...
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Biorights in Theory and Practice
Bio-rights is an innovative financing mechanism for reconciling poverty alleviation and environmental conservation. By providing micro-credits for sustainable development, the approach enables local communities to refrain from unsustainable practices and be actively involved in environmental conservation and restoration. Micro-credits are converted into definitive payments upon successful delivery... Read more...
Loktak
Fourth in series, the newsletter brings in an update on conservation and management of Loktak Lake, Manipur a Ramsar site and a large freshwater wetland in northeast India. The current issue focuses on water management. It summarizes the various issues related to current water management which is focused on human uses (particularly hydropower generation) ignoring other ecological requirements for ... Read more...
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