IUCN designates Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurugram as India’s first OECM site

IUCN designates Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurugram as India’s first OECM site

• The Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurugram, Haryana, has been declared as India’s first “other effective area-based conservation measures” (OECM) site.
• This was informed by the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change on the occasion of World Wetlands Day on February 02, 2022.
• The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) gives OECM tag to those areas that are not protected but support rich biodiversity.
• The tag designates the area as a biodiversity hotspot on the international map.

Points to Remember:

1. Which Indian site has been declared as country’s first OECM site?
2. The Aravalli Biodiversity Park is in which city/state?
3. OECM site designation is given by which organisation?
4. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) headquarter? Gland, Switzerland

Source: The Times of India