India has added Tsokar wetland complex in ladakh as its 42nd r | Dr. B R AMBEDKAR IAS ACADEMY
India has added Tsokar wetland complex in ladakh as its 42nd ramsar site, which is a second one in the union territory (UT) of ladakh. The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude wetland complex, consisting of two principal waterbodies, Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater lake of about 438 hectares to the south Tso Kar itself, a hyper saline lake of 1800 hectares to the north, situated in the Chang thang region of Ladakh, India. It is called Tso Kar, meaning white lake, because of the white salt efflorescence found on the margins due to the evaporation of highly saline water. The Tso Kar Basin is an A1 Category Important Bird Area (IBA) as per Bird Life International and a key staging site in the Central Asian Flyway. The site is also one of the most important breeding areas of the Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) in India.
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