{"id":369108,"date":"2026-08-07T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=369108"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:57:42","slug":"asan-wetland-conservation-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asan-wetland-conservation-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Asan Wetland Conservation Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>The Supreme Court clarified that a direction banning mining activities within a 10 km radius of the Asan wetland conservation reserve would apply to other wetland conservation reserves across the country for the sake of parity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Asan Wetland Conservation Reserve<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_369130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369130\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-369130\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-WWF-India.jpg?resize=507%2C345&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Asan Wetland Conservation Reserve\" width=\"507\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-WWF-India.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-WWF-India.jpg?resize=1024%2C695&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-WWF-India.jpg?resize=768%2C521&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-WWF-India.jpg?w=1123&amp;ssl=1 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; WWF India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is situated in <strong>Dehradun district, Uttarakhand<\/strong>, along the <strong>Asan River<\/strong>, which <strong>flows into the Yamuna River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>declared<\/strong> a Conservation Reserve in <strong>2005<\/strong> under <strong>Section 36A of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-protection-act-1972-2\/#:~:text=The%20Act%20imposes%20a%20ban,breeding%20programme%20for%20endangered%20species.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ramsar Site<\/strong>: It is the\u00a0<strong><em>first Ramsar site in Uttarakhand<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is listed as an\u00a0<strong>Important Bird Area (IBA)\u00a0<\/strong>by the <strong>Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and BirdLife International.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Avain Species<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Strategically located<\/strong> within the\u00a0<strong><em>Central Asian Flyways (CAF)<\/em>,<\/strong>the reserve homes <strong>330 bird species<\/strong>, including <strong>critically endangered species<\/strong> like the<em>\u00a0<strong>red-headed vulture, white-rumped vultur<\/strong><\/em><strong>e<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><em>Baer\u2019s pochard<\/em>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Other <strong>vulnerable or endangered species<\/strong> include the <strong>Egyptian vulture, steppe eagle, and Indian spotted eagle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fish Diversity<\/strong>: It supports <strong>49 fish species<\/strong>, including the <strong>endangered\u00a0<em>Putitor mahseer<\/em>\u00a0(Tor putitora).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0The Supreme Court clarified that a direction banning mining activities within a 10 km radius of the Asan wetland conservation reserve would apply to other wetland conservation reserves across the country for the sake of parity. About Asan Wetland Conservation Reserve Location: It is situated in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, along the Asan River, which flows&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asan-wetland-conservation-reserve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asan Wetland Conservation Reserve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-369108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369108","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\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}