caa a22 4500 386307903 CHVBK 20180307111535.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0030605300022341 doi S0030605300022341 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0030605300022341 Rahmani Asad R. Bombay Natural History Society, Hombill House (Museum Compound), Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road, Bombay 400 023, India Dihaila Jheel—a new candidate for the Ramsar Convention [Elektronische Daten] [Asad R. Rahmani] Wetland and waterfowl protection has become a major concern of the Indian Government recently. Among the 300 or so wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in India, wetland habitat is under-represented. There are nearly 20 bird sanctuaries, but only two wetlands—Bharatpur and Chilka—are listed under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention). There is certainly great scope to add more sites to the Ramsar list of wetlands. The author has identified one candidate—Dihaila Jheel in Madhya Pradesh state—and exciting new initiatives are now being taken to protect and manage it with a view to recommending it as a Ramsar site. Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1988 Oryx Cambridge University Press 22/4(1988-10), 211-215 0030-6053 22:4<211 1988 22 ORX https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300022341 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300022341 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rahmani Asad R. Bombay Natural History Society, Hombill House (Museum Compound), Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road, Bombay 400 023, India NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oryx Cambridge University Press 22/4(1988-10), 211-215 0030-6053 22:4<211 1988 22 ORX CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge