Call to conserve water bodies

Speakers at a discussion meeting Wednesday urged the government to take effective measures to conserve wetlands to protect environment and biodiversity.
They stressed on the need to build national consensus to preserve and conserve wetlands according to Ramsar Convention, an intergovernmental treaty to maintain ecological character of wetlands.
They were speaking at the discussion jointly organised by Ministry of Environment and Forest and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to mark World Wetlands Day at the city's Cirdap auditorium, said a press release.
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