UPSC NOTES & CURRENT AFFAIRS

2021-09-03 15:30:03 ︎PLACES IN NEWS - 8

■ DEEPOR BEEL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY.

#Conservation

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the eco-sensitive zone of the Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the south-western edge of Guwahati.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ Deepar Beel is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Assam and the State’s only Ramsar site besides being an Important Bird Area.

◇ Located to the south-west of Guwahati city, in Kamrup Metropolitan district.

◇ It is a permanent freshwater lake, in a former channel of the Brahmaputra River, to the south of the main river.

□ MAJOR THREATS :-

◇ Deepar Beel has long been used as a sponge for Guwahati’s sewage via a couple of streams.

◇ Wetland has also suffered from seepage of toxins from a garbage dump at Boragaon adjoining it.

◇ For decades been threatened by a railway track set to be doubled and electrified on its southern rim, a garbage dump, and encroachment from human habitation and commercial units.

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2021-09-02 15:30:02 ︎ PLACES IN NEWS - 7

■ PATANAL WETLANDS.

#Conservation

Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands is facing a severe crisis due to wildfires and climate change.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ Natural region encompassing the world’s largest tropical wetland area, and the world’s largest flooded grasslands.

◇ Located within the Brazilian and extends to some portions of Bolivia and Paraguay.

◇ Sprawls over an area estimated at between 140,000 and 195,000 square kilometer.

◇ 80% of the Pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nurturing a biologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping to support a dense array of animal species.

□ RISKS FACED :-

◇ Unlike the Amazon rainforest, vegetation in the Pantanal has evolved to coexist with fire.

◇ Often caused by lightning strikes, those natural fires spring up at the end of the dry season, but the surrounding floodplains prevent them from spreading.

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2021-09-01 15:30:08 ︎PLACES IN NEWS - 6

■ GREAT BARRIER REEF.

#Climatechange

□ WHY IN NEWS ?

Chinese official has said that political tensions between Beijing and Australia were not behind a UNESCO recommendation to place the Great Barrier Reef on its endangered list.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.

◇ It is stretched for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres.

◇ The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

◇ It was world heritage listed in 1981 by UNESCO as the most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem on the planet.

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2021-08-31 15:30:11 ︎PLACES IN NEWS -5

■ NORD STREAM PIPELINE PROJECT.

#Infrastructure

The US, which had previously imposed sanctions to prevent the completion of a major new gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, has now signaled its approval for the project.

□ ABOUT :-

◇ It is a system of offshore natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.

◇ It includes two active pipelines running from Vyborg to Lubmin near Greifswald forming the original Nord Stream, and two further pipelines under construction running from Ust-Luga to Lubmin termed Nord Stream 2.

◇ In Lubmin the lines connect to the OPAL line to Olbernhau on the Czech border and to the NEL line to Rehden near Bremen.

◇ The first line Nord Stream-1 was laid and inaugurated in 2011 and the second line in 2012.

◇ At 1,222 km in length, Nord Stream is the longest sub-sea pipeline in the world, surpassing the Langeled pipeline.

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