The Greater Noida authority recently prepared a project to help protect and conserve the Surajpur wetland.
About Surajpur Wetland:
It is situated near Surajpur Village in Dadri Tehsil of Gautam Budh Nagar District under the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, Uttar Pradesh.
It is an excellent example of an urban wetland in the Yamuna River basin.
It is the green lung for Greater Noida, with 308 hectares of catchment area and 60 hectares of the waterbody alone.
It has been classified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by the BirdLife International.
It forms suitable breeding ground forwaterfowls such as Spot-billed Duck, Lesser-whistling Duck, Cotton Pygmy Goose and Comb Duck, and wintering waterfowls such as Red-crested Pochard, Ferruginous Pochard, Bar-headed Goose, Greylag Goose, Common Teal, Northern Shoveler and Gadwall.
Apart from a large population of avifauna, the wetland also supports many species ofmammals, including Nilgai, Indian Grey Mongoose, Indian Hare, Golden Jackal, and Five-striped Squirrel.
It also houses several species of fishes, herpeto-fauna, butterflies and more than 220 species of plants.
The wetland is under threat due to the indiscriminate discharge of highly polluted wastewater into its channels.
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