Endangered Indian wetlands - Concept For Sustainable Development And Management: A Review

Wetlands cover approximately 6% of the world's earth surface and provide critical ecosystem, goods and services including food,\ud fodder, water, medicines, hydrological cycle, shelter, culture, aesthetics, and recreation. Major threat to these ecosystem are\ud agriculture, urbanization, industrialization, over exploitation, pollution, excessive mining, fragmentation, habitat destruction and\ud climatic changes. These above factors have been destroying these ecosystems very rapidly putting them in danger of extinction\ud of a great number of plants and animal species. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a correct conservation strategy and sound\ud management plan for wetland restoration