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Wetland Conservation and Sustainable Development in Kerala, India
As in Kerala, comprehensive and scientific
assessment of wetland areas in the rest of India
is not yet done in spite of the wetland management
programs and conservation rules existing in the
country. Consistent datasets are available only for
specific wetland types like mangrove forests.
Inconsistencies in the national wetlands database
are also due to changes in the assessment methodologies,
which prevent the understanding of the
changing nature of the wetlands (Prasad et al.
2002). The Ramsar Site Information Sheets
(RSIS) of Indian Ramsar sites need to be updated
by incorporating the present status. Details of the
three Ramsar sites have not been updated yet since
their designation in 2002 (Ramsar 2019d). Similarly,
and despite the directives of the KCPWA 2008, the absence of proper datasets of the wetlands
and paddy fields in Kerala has affected
policy planning and protection measures and contributed
to the degeneration of wetlands and
paddy fields (Chitra 2016). WCMR 2017 stipulates
that the inventory of all wetlands in Kerala
should be complete within 1 year, but SWAK is
yet to complete the wetland database (GoK 2019),
which in turn affects adversely conservation measures
in Kerala