Eco-sensitive Zone of Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary Notified
On 25th August, 2021, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, notified the eco-sensitive zone of the Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary which is situated in Assam.
- The notification specified an area to an extent varying from 294 metres to 16.32 kms as the eco-sensitive zone, with the total area being 148.9 sq. kms.
About Deepor Beel
- Deepor Beel is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Assam and the State’s only Ramsar site listed since November 2002.
- An Important Bird Area (IBA), it is situated to the south-west of Guwahati city, in Kamrup district of Assam.
- It is a ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Ecology & Environment
- 1 India’s Green Maritime Odyssey
- 2 India Launches ‘Operation Sagar Bandhu’
- 3 Mass Coral Mortality at One Tree Reef Signals Escalating Climate Threat
- 4 Tamil Nadu Targets Eradication of Senna spectabilis by March 2026
- 5 Cyclone Senyar Poses Extinction-Level Threat to Tapanuli Orangutans
- 6 India to Have Over 100 Tsunami-Ready Villages
- 7 CITES CoP20
- 8 India Leads Global Push on Wildfire Management at UNEA-7
- 9 Samudra Pratap: India’s First Indigenous Pollution Control Vessel
- 10 Freshwater Sponges: Nature’s Biofilters Against Toxic Metal Pollution
