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What is Dampier and Hodges?
Notes: Dampier-Hodges line is an imaginary line drawn in 1829-1830 to mark the northern boundary of Sundarbans delta. It passes through 24 Parganas South and North districts of West Bengal.
What is Dampier Hodges line in Bengali?
Dampier Hodges line is an imaginary line, passing through 24 Parganas South and North districts (West Bengal) which indicates the northern-most limits of the estuarine zone affected by tidal fluctuations.
Is Sundarban a Ramsar site?
Spread across India and Bangladesh over 1 million ha area, Sunderban is the world’s largest single contiguous mangrove swamp. The Indian part received its formal designation yesterday thus bringing the entire swamp under the ambit of Ramsar wise use framework.
Is Sundarban a mangrove forest?
The Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), located in the south-west of Bangladesh between the river Baleswar in the East and the Harinbanga in the West, adjoining to the Bay of Bengal, is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world. It is the only mangrove habitat in the world for Panthera tigris tigris species.
Which is the largest Ramsar site in India?
2- Chilika Lake is the largest Ramsar Site of India with a surface area of 1,16,500 hectares….List of Ramsar sites in India.
Ramsar Sites of India | Location |
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Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary | Tamil Nadu |
Pong Dam Lake | Himachal Pradesh |
Renuka Lake | Himachal Pradesh |
Ropar Wetland | Punjab |
Which is the 27th Ramsar site in India?
Indian Sundarban
Located on the southwestern part of the delta, the Indian Sundarban constitutes over 60% of the country’s total mangrove forest area. It is the 27th Ramsar Site in India, and with an area of 4,23,000 hectares is now the largest protected wetland in the country.
Which is the largest mangrove forest in world?
The Sundarbans Reserve Forest
The Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), located in the south-west of Bangladesh between the river Baleswar in the East and the Harinbanga in the West, adjoining to the Bay of Bengal, is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world.
Is Sundarban in India or Bangladesh?
The larger part is situated in Bangladesh, a smaller portion of it lies in India. The Indian part of the forest is estimated to be about 40 percent, while the Bangladeshi part is 60 percent.
Which is the first Ramsar site in India?
Chilika Lake
3- Chilika Lake (Orissa) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) were recognized as the first Ramsar Sites of India.
Which Ramsar is man made?
Which among the following is a manmade Ramsar site? Notes: Harike Wetland and the lake were formed by constructing the head works across the Sutlej river, in 1953.
Which is the smallest Ramsar site in India?
Renuka Wetland
Renuka Wetland (0.2 sq.km) of Himachal Pradesh is the smallest Ramsar Site in India, followed by Chandertal Wetland (0.49 sq.km) in Himachal Pradesh.
Which country has most mangroves?
As can be seen from Table 2, the most extensive area of mangroves is found in Asia, followed by Africa and South America. Four countries (Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria and Australia) account for about 41 percent of all mangroves and 60 percent of the total mangrove area is found in just ten countries.