Since India became a contracting party to the Ramsar Convention in 1981, only 25 wetlands in the country have been internationally designated as Ramsar sites. This is in spite of the richness of aquatic ecosystem types in the country. The 25 Ramsar sites in India do not represent even a fraction of the diversity of wetland habitats existing in the country. In this book, 160 sites which qualify the Ramsar criteria, has been identified, including the existing 25 Ramsar sites. Most of the potential Ramsar sites and many existing Ramsar sites are important for biodiversity conservation. About 144 are Important Bird Areas (IBAs), and 79 are protected areas (Sanctuaries, National Parks, Conservation Reserve). While selecting the potential sites (135), the authors have made an attempt to cover all the biogeographic areas, except Andaman and Nicobar. In this book, they have tried to cover the whole country and all the biogeographic regions and their provinces. The book will help the decision makers, conservationists, and administrators to declare and maintain many more Ramsar sites in India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Geetika Tankha
Dr. Geetika Tankha has done her doctorate in Environmental Psychology and her post graduation in Clinical Psychology from Rajasthan University, Jaipur. She is presently working as a Psychologist and faculty member at Prayas –Institute for Special Education and Vocational Training, Jaipur. She is also a visiting faculty at Rajasthan Institute of Speech and hearing and Jaipur Hospital College of Physiotherapy. She is Life Associate Member of Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists. She is also on the editorial board of the official journal of the IACP Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology and was also a co-editor of the “Book of Abstracts†of the 32nd National Annual Conference of IACP held at Jaipur in 2006. She is also the International Affiliate Member of American Psychological Association. Her areas of interest are positive psychology, clinical psychology and environmental psychology. She has published more than a dozen research papers in abstracted journals of national and international repute and guided research work at post graduate level.
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