Which was the first Ramsar site, that is an internationally recognised wetland, declared in Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Sur Sarovar
- B.Upper Ganga river, Brijghat to Narora
- C.Bakhira
- D.Haiderpur wetland
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Upper Ganga river stretch from Brijghat to Narora, recognised in 2005 and the first wetland of Uttar Pradesh on the Ramsar list. The stretch is valued because it still carries the Gangetic dolphin, the gharial, turtles and large numbers of wintering waterbirds in a river that is heavily used elsewhere. Option A, Sur Sarovar or Keetham lake near Agra, came much later, in 2020. Option C, Bakhira in Sant Kabir Nagar, is a shallow natural lake added in 2022. Option D, the Haiderpur wetland on the Ganga barrage in Muzaffarnagar, was added in 2021 and lies inside the Hastinapur sanctuary. The order to remember is simple: the river stretch first, the lakes afterwards. Examiners often ask which of several sites came first rather than the full list, so fix 2005 in mind as the year Uttar Pradesh entered the Ramsar list.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the only national park of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Dudhwa
- B.Katarniaghat
- C.Hastinapur
- D.Chandra Prabha
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Dudhwa, in Lakhimpur Kheri district on the Indo-Nepal border, was declared a national park in 1977 and remains the only national park in Uttar Pradesh; everything else protected in the state is a wildlife sanctuary, a tiger reserve or a conservation reserve.
Read the full explanation →Dudhwa National Park is situated in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Bahraich
- B.Pilibhit
- C.Lakhimpur Kheri
- D.Balrampur
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The park lies in the Terai of Lakhimpur Kheri along the Nepal border, and the Kishanpur sanctuary, which forms part of the same tiger reserve, is in the same district.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest wildlife sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh by area?
- A.Kishanpur
- B.Hastinapur
- C.Suhelwa
- D.Sohagi Barwa
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The Hastinapur wildlife sanctuary stretches along the Ganga across Meerut, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Amroha, Hapur and Ghaziabad, which makes it the largest sanctuary of the state and one that spans the most districts; it protects the swamp deer of the Ganga plain and includes the Haiderpur wetland, a Ramsar site.
Read the full explanation →The Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary protects the gharial and the Gangetic dolphin in which river?
- A.Gomti
- B.Girwa
- C.Rapti
- D.Sharda
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The Girwa flows out of Nepal through Bahraich district, and its clear, deep stretch inside Katarniaghat is one of the few places in India where the gharial and the Gangetic dolphin are found together, which is why the sanctuary is treated as a key gharial breeding site.
Read the full explanation →Asiatic lions were introduced in 1957 in which wildlife sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh, in an attempt that later failed?
- A.Ranipur
- B.Chandra Prabha
- C.Kaimur
- D.Sohagi Barwa
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Lions brought from the Gir forest of Gujarat were released there in the late 1950s and bred for a few years, but poaching and the small size of the forest wiped the group out, and the experiment is now cited as the first attempt to give the Asiatic lion a…
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