Leh/ Dec. 24/ News Desk/ A lake in the Changthang village of Ladakh, what the locals call Tsokor has been added to the Ramsar’s list of sites of international importance, maintained a tweet by the official twitter handle of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India on Wednesday.

#India ends the year 2020 by declaring its 42nd #Ramsar_site. Tsokar wetland complex, 4500 meters above sea level in the Changthang region of #Ladakh, was added to the list of sites of international importance on 23rd December 2020. pic.twitter.com/JwVRrijbig

— MoEF&CC (@moefcc) December 24, 2020

A Ramsar Site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention by UNESCO held in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971. The intergovernmental environmental treaty that came into force in 1975 is now known as the Ramsar Convention.

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As per the Ramsar official website, the Convention’s mission is “the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world”.