Ecology Flashcards

Question

Number of wetlands in India listed under Ramseur convention

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46 wetlands (4-10-21)

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🌸 wetlands in North America 🌸 consist of late superior, Lake Michigan (US), Lake Huron, Lake Erie Lake Ontario 🌸 Worlds largest inland water transport system 🌸Lake superior – worlds largest freshwater lake by volume

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Cordilleras of andes- Chain of mountains with active volcanoes 🌸Highest freshwater lake of the world 🌸Ramsar site 🌸 located with in aunties on the borders of Bolivia and Peru

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``` Ramsar site in Africa Located in Kenya Tanzania and Uganda Largest freshwater lake of Africa Origin of nile (W) river equator passing ```

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Ramsar site in Africa | Situated on the borders of Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi

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🌸 Ramseur sites in Africa 🌸 Tanzania Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Zambia 🌸 longest freshwater lake of the world 700 km

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🌸 Ramsar site in Asia 🌸only freshwater lake of Israel towards the border with syria 🌸 okay runs of this freshwater lake in the Sun famous for selling water bodies as a geographical miracle-It is fed by underwater springs and Jordan River

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Ramsar site Between Israel and Jordan No biodiversity due to high salinity

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Ramsar site Turkey Hi Salini T – greater than dead Sea

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Ramsar site Between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Changing size that is shrinking and it has lost 80 percentage of the sea – Amu Darya and Sry Darya Are draining into Aral sea Who is waters are being diverted from the rivers for cotton cultivation in Siberia

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Ramsar site Deepest freshwater of the world Affected by man use like Aral sea

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Six independent partners | IUCN, WWF, birdlife international, wetland international, IWMI, WWT

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Loktak Lake, Keoladeo Ghana National Park | Chilika -removed

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Uttar Pradesh - eight

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Sundarbans

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1972 Stockholm conference Or UN conference on human environment UN‘s first major conference on international environmental issues and marking a turning point in the development of international environmental politics Objective: serve as a practical means to encourage and provide guidelines for the action by governments and international organisations designed to protect and improve the human environment India came up with the environment protection act 1986 and the directives

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Report is also called our common future by the world commission on environment and development & published by UN First time defined the sustainable development as development not only taking care of the present generations but also not compromising with the demands of the future generations status judicious use of natural resources it also mentioned that sustainable development must been to tourist economies of the world and should reach up to the poorer section of the society in all the countries Multilateralism & interdependence

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Rio summit or the Earth Summit 1992 UN conference on environment and development Three notable proceedings: Agenda 21 which is a sustainable development approach for the 21st century from global to local scale Rio declaration which involves the formation of 3 Rio conventions UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCC – all are legally binding instruments Global environmental Facility: it is the largest climate fund initiative in the world and the custodian as World Bank money can be utilised for five different conventions: UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCC, Stockholm convention on PoPs, Minimata convention on mercury

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World Summit on sustainable development/Ryeo +10/Johannesburg Summit/Earth Summit 2002

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UN conference on sustainable development/Earth Summit 2012/Ryeo +20 at Rio De Janeiro To focus areas sustainable development——> sustainable development goals adopted under UNDP To be achieved by 2030 Green economy– – – – > lead to the adoption of PAGE (partnership for action on green Economy) under five different UN organs: UNEP UNDP UNIDO, ILO, UNITR