Menar Village in the Udaipur district is set to be notified as Rajasthan’s new wetland. <\/span>This will pave the way for getting the Ramsar site status for this village.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> At present, Rajasthan has two wetlands recognised as Ramsar sites \u2013 Keoladeo Ghana in Bharatpur district and Sambhar Salt Lake in Jaipur district.<\/span><\/p>\n Menar is a village located in Udaipur district, Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n The village is recognised as the <\/span>\u201cbird village<\/b>\u201d following community-driven conservation efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n The village has two lakes \u2013 the <\/span>Brahma and Dhandh. <\/b>These lakes play host to m<\/span>ore than 150 species of local and migratory birds in the winter season.<\/span><\/p>\n These include Greater Flamingo, White-tailed Lapwing, Pelican, Marsh Harrier, Bar-headed Goose, Common Teal, Greenshank, Pintail, Wagtail, Green Sandpiper and Red-wattled Lapwing.<\/span><\/p>\n The volunteers known as <\/span>Pakshi Mitras (friends of birds)<\/b> are maintaining the lakes as a safe haven for birds.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cRajasthan<\/b>\u2019s \u2018bird village\u2019 set to be declared wetland<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 25th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Menar Village in the Udaipur district is set to be notified as Rajasthan’s new wetland. This will pave the way for getting the Ramsar site status for this village. Note: At present, Rajasthan has two wetlands recognised as Ramsar sites \u2013 Keoladeo Ghana in Bharatpur district and Sambhar Salt Lake in… Continue reading Rajasthan\u2019s \u2018bird village\u2019 set to be declared wetland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-192878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704762340},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Menar<\/b><\/h5>\n