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Etangs de la Champagne humide
Etangs de la Champagne humide, Ramsar site no. 514 (designated 5 April 1991), the largest Ramsar wetland of metropolitan France at 255,800 ha across Aube, Marne, and Haute-Marne, with over 400 medieval fish ponds, four reservoir lakes, and nearly 150,000 wintering waterbirds.
Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes
Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes are two seasonal, fresh-to-brackish wetlands in southern Perth, Western Australia, covering 784 hectares and designated a Ramsar site in June 1990.
Gansu Yellow River Shouqu Wetlands
Gansu Yellow River Shouqu Wetlands (黄河首曲), Ramsar Site no. 2429, is an alpine marsh and meadow wetland in Maqu County, Gansu, at the Yellow River's first meander; it adds 40% of upper-basin run-off and shelters black-necked cranes.
Horsens Fjord and Endelave
Horsens Fjord and Endelave (Horsens Fjord, havet øst for og Endelave) is a shallow East Jutland fjord, adjacent Kattegat sea and island in Denmark, protected as Ramsar site 152 (1977) and Natura 2000 site 56 (DK00DY156), 46,154 ha, threatened by nutrient enrichment and fish farms.
Les Gueltates d'Issakarassene
Les Gueltates d'Issakarassene, Ramsar site no. 1058, is a 35,100 ha permanent guelta wetland at ~2,000 m in Algeria's Ahaggar mountains, designated 2 February 2001, home to desert-endemic Barbus fish and vulnerable gazelle and cheetah.
Malagarasi - Moyowosi
Malagarasi-Moyowosi (Malagarasi-Muyovozi), FEOW ecoregion 543 and Tanzania's first Ramsar site (2000, 3,250,000 ha), a floodplain wetland complex in Tanzania and Burundi draining into Lake Tanganyika, with endemic cichlids and Shoebills.
Marais De Kaw
Marais de Kaw (Ramsar Site no. 644), a 137,000-hectare tropical wetland in French Guiana, France, designated 8 December 1993; France's largest wetland, home to black caiman and the world's largest agami heron colony.
Nissum Bredning with Harboore and Agger Tange
Nissum Bredning with Harboore and Agger Tange (Ramsar Site 144, Denmark, 1977, 12,786 ha) protects the western Limfjord basin and its two North Sea sand spits, internationally important for geese, waders, and harbour seals.
North Sea Coastal Area
North Sea Coastal Area (Noordzeekustzone), Ramsar Site no. 1252, is a Dutch coastal wetland designated in 2000, about 1,445 km² of sandbanks, mudflats, salt meadows and dunes, also a Natura 2000 SAC and SPA.
NSW Central Murray State Forests
NSW Central Murray State Forests, now NSW Central Murray Forests, a Ramsar wetland near Deniliquin designated 20 May 2003, about 84,000 hectares of Millewa, Werai and Koondrook-Perricoota river red gum floodplain forests on the Murray River.
Randers and Mariager Fjords and The Adjacent Sea
Randers and Mariager Fjords and The Adjacent Sea (Ramsar site 150) is a 39,190 ha Danish wetland designated 2 September 1977 in Jutland, covering two eutrophied fjords, Kattegat shallows, and waterbird habitats.
Sejrø Bugt, Nekselø Bugt and Saltbæk Vig
Sejrø Bugt, Nekselø Bugt and Saltbæk Vig (Ramsar site 157, Danish no. 18) is a 44,111 ha coastal wetland in northwestern Zealand, Denmark, designated 2 September 1977, important for moulting greylag geese, sea ducks, and rare ferns and orchids.
Upper Solway Flats & Marshes
Upper Solway Flats & Marshes, also the Upper Solway Flats and Marshes SPA/Ramsar site (UK11079), is a cross-border intertidal wetland at the head of the Solway Firth, famed for Svalbard barnacle geese, over 130,000 wintering waterfowl, and unclaimed saltmarsh transitions.
Waters between Lolland and Falster including Rødsand, Guldborg sound, and Bøtø Nor
Ramsar site no. 164 (Danish R25), Farvandet mellem Lolland og Falster med Rødsand, Guldborgsund og Bøtø Nor: 34,812 ha of shallow Danish coastal waters designated 1977, important for waterbirds, Mute Swan moulting, and seals.
Waters South of Zealand, Skælskør Fjord, Glænø and adjacent wetlands
Ramsar Site no. 158 (Danish no. 19, R19), a 1977-designated coastal wetland in Sjælland, Denmark, covering Skælskør Fjord, Glænø, lagoons, and marshes within Natura 2000 site 162.
Waters southeast of Fejø and Femø islands
Ramsar site no. 160 (Danish no. 21, Farvandet sydøst for Fejø og Femø), a 41,826 ha shallow coastal wetland in Smålandsfarvandet, Denmark, designated 1977, important for Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, and Little Tern, part of Natura 2000.