{"id":29685,"date":"2025-01-28T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T03:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29685"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:33:23","slug":"surajpur-wetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/surajpur-wetland\/","title":{"rendered":"Surajpur Wetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Surajpur Wetland Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Greater Noida authority recently prepared a project to help protect and conserve the Surajpur wetland.<\/p>\n<h2>About Surajpur Wetland<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is situated near Surajpur Village in Dadri Tehsil of District Gautam Budh Nagar under the <strong>Greater Noida <\/strong>Industrial Development Authority, <strong>Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an excellent example of an <strong>urban wetland in the Yamuna River basin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a green lung for Greater Noida, with 308 hectares of catchment area and 60 hectares of the waterbody alone.<\/li>\n<li>It is classified as an <strong>Important Bird Area (IBA) by Bird Life International.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It forms suitable <strong>breeding ground for water fowl<\/strong> such as <strong>Spot-billed Duck<\/strong>, <strong>Lesser-whistling Duck, Cotton Pygmy Goose,<\/strong> and Comb Duck, and wintering waterfowl such as Red-crested Pochard, Ferruginous Pochard, Bar-headed Goose, Greylag Goose, Common Teal, Northern Shoveler, and Gadwall.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from a large population of avifauna, the wetland <strong>also supports s<\/strong>ix species of <strong>mammals, including Nilgai, Indian Grey Mongoose, Indian Hare<\/strong>, Golden Jackal, and Five-striped Squirrel.<\/li>\n<li>The wetland is under threat due to the indiscriminate discharge of highly polluted wastewater into its channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Surajpur Wetland FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the latitude and longitude of Surajpur Bird Sanctuary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The area lies between Latitudes 28\u00b031.425&#8217;N and Longitude 77\u00b029.714&#8217;E at an elevation of 184.7m msl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which is the oldest water bird sanctuary in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: The Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu established in 1936 is considered the oldest water bird sanctuary in India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is BirdLife International?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: BirdLife International is a global partnership of conservation organizations focused on the protection of birds, their habitats, and biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/pollution\/saving-surajpur-wetland-in-greater-noida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surajpur Wetland is situated near Surajpur Village in Dadri Tehsil of District Gautam Budh Nagar under the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}