Coastal Areas of India: The Indian coastline of about 7516.6 km includes 5422.6 km of mainland and 2094 km of coastline belonging to Indian islands, the major ones being the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal and the Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea. The coastline touches 13 States and Union Territories […]
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Wetlands are the areas where the surface of the soil is covered by water all through the year or varying according to natural features. Hydrology largely defines the ecosystem present in a wetland and other factors are kind of plant species and aquatic life being present or grow over a period of time. The Merriam
Wetlands and Ramsar: The wetlands serve the humanity in multiple ways, but it doesn’t mean that we should exploit the resources, blindly. Tourism can be a sustainable way of exploring the potentials of wetlands preservation and at the same time employment and revenue source for the people. List of Wetlands of National Importance and Ramsar
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Nature Based Tourism: The experience involves and revolves around the area’s natural products and will include either or all of these animals, plants and human cultural variety. Certain principles that have to be included and made a part of the plan are: Geographic and Historical Education; Resource Use with Sustainability; Zero Environmental Degradation; Adding to
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River System of India: Rivers can be classified on the basis of catchment area. A major river is having a catchment area of 20000 sq. k.m or above. Catchment area with 2000-20000 sq. k.m. is called medium river and river with less than catchment area of 2000 sq. k.m. is called a minor river. In
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River System of India: Rivers can be classified on the basis of catchment area. A major river is having a catchment area of 20000 sq. k.m or above. Catchment area with 2000-20000 sq. k.m. is called medium river and river with less than catchment area of 2000 sq. k.m. is called a minor river. In
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