TOPIC: GS PAPER III BIODIVERSITY & ENVIRONMENT
Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
The Centre has notified a new set of rules for preservation of wetlands under which the states will have to identify water bodies to be brought under this category by March next year.
WETLANDS:
SCENOPTIC OVERVIEW:
RECENT CASE:
The new rules seek to shield these sensitive ecosystems from encroachments of any kind, hazardous industrial effluents and discharges from human settlements, solid waste dumping.
Sources: TOI, 22 Nov
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