{"id":3051,"date":"2023-02-20T01:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:59:35","slug":"where-is-the-harike-wetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-the-harike-wetland\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Harike Wetland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Harike Wetland:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Harike Wildlife Sanctuary also locally known as &#8220;<strong>Hari-ke-Pattan&#8221;<\/strong> is one of the largest wetlands in northern India.<\/li>\n<li>It is situated at the confluence of two <strong>major rivers of Punjab<\/strong> <strong>Sutlej and Beas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Harike wetland came into existence in 1953 due to the construction of a barrage on River Sutlej.<\/li>\n<li>It has been designated as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ramsar-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ramsar sites<\/strong> in India<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This is a man-made, riverine wetland spreads across three districts of <strong>Punjab <\/strong>i.e.,Tarn Taran, Ferozepur and Kapurthala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/h3>\n<p>A Wildlife Sanctuary can be termed as a large geographical piece of land, usually forested, where animals are kept in their natural habitats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/migratory-bird-arrivals-at-punjabs-harike-wetland-decline-this-season-latest-census-shows\/article66528115.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Migratory bird arrivals at Punjab&#8217;s Harike wetland decline this season, latest census shows<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harike Wetland is situated at the confluence of two major rivers of Punjab Sutlej and Beas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3051","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\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}