How Wet Are Our Wetlands?
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The Ramsar Convention’s broad definition of wetlands can be used to describe some 27000 odd waterbodies in India; although the country has been oddly neglectful of these which have, directly or indirectly, been the source of life and livelihood of
Oil War in the Sunderbans
Environmentalists termed the 2014 Sunderbans oil spill as an ‘ecological catastrophe’, hampering the well-being of various aquatic organisms in the area, as well as endangering several rare species including the Irrawaddy dolphins, Oriental small-clawed otters, Bengal tigers, rhesus macaques, leopards,