The country’s wetlands have been grouped into eight categories. These are:
- The reservoirs of the Deccan Plateau in the south together with the lagoons and other wetlands of the southern west coast;
- The vast saline expanses of Rajasthan, Gujarat and the Gulf of Kachchh;
- Freshwater lakes and reservoirs from Gujarat eastwards through Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh;
- The delta wetlands and lagoons of India’s east coast;
- The freshwater marshes of the Gangetic Plain;
- The floodplains of the Brahmaputra; the marshes and swamps in the hills of northeast India and the Himalayan foothills;
- The lakes and rivers of the montane region of Kashmir and Ladakh; and
- The mangrove forest and other wetlands of the island arcs of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
