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World Wetlands Day is being celebrated today with the slogan 'Protection of wetlands for our common future'. This day has been celebrated with the aim of increasing public awareness and promoting the protection and restoration of wetlands in order to prevent the rapid degradation of wetlands.
The United Nations decided to celebrate Wetlands Day worldwide on 2 February every year on 30 August 2021. The day is going to be celebrated in memory of the day of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, which was held in Ramsar, an Iranian city on the shores of the Caspian Sea, in 1971.
The day is celebrated with the aim of enabling nations to take necessary steps for the protection and sustainable use of their watersheds through the declaration of protected areas, the implementation of effective policies and the exchange of knowledge. A total of 172 countries have accepted this convention, and there is a rule that countries participating in this convention must include at least one water body in the list of wetlands of international importance (Ramsar area).
Currently Nepal's Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Raratal, Maipokhari, Phoksundo Lake, Bisahjari Lake, Ghodaghodi Lake, Gosaikund Lake, Gokyo Lake, Jagdishpur Reservoir and Pokhara Valley and a group of nine lakes in that area are included in the Ramsar List.
Wetland means a place or terrain that is naturally or artificially created and permanently or temporarily covered with water, water flowing or falling as a waterfall, swamp, marsh, marsh or salt and alkaline water. According to Nepal's National Wetlands Policy, 2069, wetlands are swampy areas where water is frozen or drained, permanent or temporary, natural or artificial.
Nepal is a mountainous country and there is an immense store of natural resources such as water, land, forest, vegetation and minerals. Out of the total area of Nepal, 8,19,277 hectares (about five percent) is occupied by wetlands. There are wetlands of international importance in Terai, Hills and Himalayan regions of Nepal.
