As part of the second phase of the 100 wetlands programme launched by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), towards making the country […]

Nestled within the floodplains of Yamuna Basin within 15 kms of River Yamuna, Dhanauri wetlands in Greater Noida is a Sarus crane hotspot attracting wide […]

The Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy hosted the first training on wetlands for IFS Probationers of 2019 batch. The two-day course, held over August 31 […]

Wetlands International South Asia in collaboration with United Nations Environment Program is hosting a webinar on 2nd September, 2020 on “Wetlands as Ecological Connections in […]

Wetlands International South Asia in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh State Wetlands Authority hosted a virtual workshop on July 24, 2020. The workshop was held […]

Wetlands play a vital role in providing an array of direct and indirect ecosystem services. Yet they continue to degrade. Urbanization and the associated land use changes have been identified as the […]

Smooth-coated Otters are small, carnivorous mammals. Their occurrence relates to healthy ecosystems with clean waters and abundant prey. Dearth of scientific information on the species […]

Announcing a new feature on the State of India’s Birds website. An option to explore all the 867 assessed species has been added, with the […]

The lock down across the world to contain the spread of Corona virus has its own share of pros and cons. One of the challenges […]

Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) India coordinators convened a virtual meeting on June 20th, 2020 for assessing the status of AWC implementation in India. A total […]