{"id":711,"date":"2010-06-21T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=711"},"modified":"2010-06-21T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:30:02","slug":"largest-wetland-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"largest wetland of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Vembanad Lake also known as Vembanad Kayal or  Vembanad Kol wetland is the largest wetland in India. This wetland was  included in the list of wetlands of international importance, as defined  by the Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable  utilization of wetlands on 19\/8\/02. An ideal habitat for shrimps and  home to more than 20,000 waterfowls in India, the Vembanad Lake covers  an area of 1,51250 Hectare.<\/h3>\n<div>\nThe other large wetlands &amp; area  covered by them are as follows: (Source : Ministry of Environment &amp;  Forests, Government of India)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Chilka  Lake, Orissa: 116500 Hectare<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Kolleru  Lake, Andhra Pradesh : 90100 Hectare<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Bhitarkanika Mangroves, Orissa : 65000 Hectare<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Ashtamudi Wetland, Kerala : 61400 Hectare<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Wular Lake, Jammu &amp; Kashmir : 18900 Hectare<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vembanad Lake also known as Vembanad Kayal or Vembanad Kol wetland is the largest wetland in India. This wetland was included in the list of wetlands of international importance, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=711\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[583,493],"tags":[478,8109,8110,8111,8112,8113],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-and-environmental-club","category-generalknowledge-india","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-chilka-lake","tag-kolleru-lake","tag-largest-wetland-of-india","tag-orissa","tag-wetlands-in-india","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}