{"id":10209,"date":"2022-08-07T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polscienceweb.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=10209"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:46:15","slug":"have-you-heard-of-ramsar-sites","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/polscienceweb.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/have-you-heard-of-ramsar-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard of Ramsar Sites?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Also known as the convention on wetlands<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-08-07T12:10:00+05:30\">7th August 2022<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\">\n<summary class=\"wo-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: center;\">Read more<br><br><\/summary>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>It is an intergovernmental treaty adopted in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. It entered into force in 1975. Under this convention, wetlands that are of international importance are declared Ramsar sites\u2014the largest Ramsar site in the world: Pantanal in South America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>Wetlands are places in which land is covered by water either seasonally or permanently. Wetlands provide benefits for humanity, ranging from freshwater supply, food, building materials, and biodiversity to flood control, groundwater recharge, and climate change mitigation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>Wetlands also remove the excess nutrients and slow the water allowing particulates to settle out of the water, which can then be absorbed into plant roots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>Wetlands are our most effective land-based ecosystem for addressing the climate crisis, e.g., coastal wetlands such as mangroves sequester carbon up to 55 times faster than tropical rainforests. Unfortunately, wetlands are rapidly being replaced for agriculture or urban development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>Wetlands take many forms, including rivers, marshes, bogs, mangroves, mudflats, ponds, swamps, lagoons, lakes, and floodplains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Montreux Record\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n><li>Adopted in Montreux (Switzerland) in 1990.<\/li><li>Identifies Ramsar sites that need priority conservation attention at the national or international level.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/11-more-wetland-sites-get-ramsar-tag-tally-rises-to-75-101660414086022.html\">HT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as the convention on wetlands It is an intergovernmental treaty adopted in 1971&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","portfolio-category":[428,447,426],"class_list":["post-10209","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-428","portfolio-category-august-2022","portfolio-category-newsfeed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Have you heard of Ramsar Sites?\u00a0 - Politics Science News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Also known as the convention on wetlands - It is an intergovernmental treaty adopted in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. 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