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24 July
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25 July
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27 July
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26 July
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Detailed explanation-1: -This day is aimed at raising awareness about mangroves and their importance as self-sustaining ecosystems. This day is observed by multiple countries worldwide each year on 26th July. To raise awareness about the significance of mangroves.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ramsar Convention has the mission to urge the Contracting Parties to conserve and wisely use all the wetlands including mangroves within their jurisdiction, as popularized in Global Wetland Outlook Special Edition 2021.
Detailed explanation-3: -Recognizing the importance of mangroves, the Government of India set up the National Mangrove Committee in the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1976 to advise the government about mangrove conservation and development.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), located in the south-west of Bangladesh between the river Baleswar in the East and the Harinbanga in the West, adjoining to the Bay of Bengal, is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world.