Site of high congregation of migratory water birds
Source of drinking water for people living and around
Source of water for agriculture
Supports life cycle of fish or amphibians
Supports noteworthy plants species
Tourism and Recreation
Water purification
Threats
Encroachment
Hydrological regime alteration
Invasive species proliferation
Pollution
Spread of invasive species
Protection Status
The villagers protects the birds. Villagers cohabit with nature and birds protecting them in their water tank from long before they observed their importance and identity. The protection given by the villagers, from predators and poachers, helped the
Management Authority
Forest Department (Guntru Division) Government of Andhra Pradesh,
Data Source ( Nanjan Sheeba & Lalitha Vijayan 2008)
Annotated Summary
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it contains a representative, rare, or unique example of a natural or near-natural wetland type found within the appropriate biogeographic region.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it supports vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered species or threatened ecological communities.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it supports populations of plant and/or animal species important for maintaining the biological diversity of a particular biogeographic region.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it supports plant and/or animal species at a critical stage in their life cycles, or provides refuge during adverse conditions.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 20,000 or more waterbirds.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 1% of the individuals in a population of one species or subspecies of waterbird.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it supports a significant proportion of indigenous fish subspecies, species or families, life-history stages, species interactions and/or populations that are representative of wetland benefits and/or values and thereby contributes to global biological diversity.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it is an important source of food for fishes, spawning ground, nursery and/or migration path on which fish stocks, either within the wetland or elsewhere, depend.
A wetland should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 1% of the individuals in a population of one species or subspecies of wetland-dependent nonavian animal species.
