Taz Barua
The Deepor Beel is a large and prominent floodplain lake located in the south-west of Guwahati city in Assam. It is a Wildlife Sanctuary of the Government of Assam and an important Ramsar site since 2002. Its basin is drained by a system of rivulets and hill streams that connect the…
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Taz Barua
The Deepor Beel is a prominent floodplain lake located in the south-west of Guwahati city in Assam. The module chronicles the relationships of the Deepor Beel wetland with the fast-growing city, with its birds and wildlife species and with the traditionally inhabiting fisher-people living around…
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Bharat Bhushan Sharma
India is rich in biodiversity and despite increasing human population, it holds various biodiverse regions, Rajasthan is the largest state of the Republic of India by area but it experiences less human population pressure when compared to the other states. For a layman, the mention of Rajasthan…
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Joystu Dutta
Banni, the largest stretch of grassland in India, is located on the southern border of the Great Rann of Kachchh, Gujarat. A large tract of Banni converts into seasonal wetland during good monsoon years which attracts large numbers of migratory avi-fauna from different parts of the world. Banni is…
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R. Venkitachalam
Introduction
After a gap of almost a decade, a terrestrial birds study was carried out at the Keoladeo National Park for four selected habitats. A total of 109 species from 31 families of terrestrial birds were recorded during the study period (2005-2006), a much lower figure compared to the 157…
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Pranjal Jain & D.P. Srivastava
A wetland is a unique ecosystem that forms a zone of transition between an aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem. It is considered to be the most productive amongst all the ecosystems (Ghermandi et al 2008). A wetland is mainly defined as an area that is saturated by surface or ground water for…
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The Yamuna Biodiversity Park is situated near Wazirabad village on the flat alluvial plains of the Yamuna. The Park is a site of biologically rich wetlands, grassland communities, a wide variety of fruit-yielding species, and an abundance of medicinal herbs.
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