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Akyatan Lagoon
Akyatan Lagoon (Akyatan Lagünü), Turkey's largest lagoon, is a choked, temporarily hypersaline coastal lagoon in Karataş, Adana, on the Mediterranean. Ramsar site no. 943 since 1998 (14,700 ha), it hosts 250+ bird species, wintering flamingos, and major green sea turtle nesting beaches.
Anzali Lagoon (تالاب انزلی)
Anzali Lagoon (Mordāb-e Anzalī, تالاب انزلی) is a Caspian coastal freshwater lagoon in Gilan, Iran, a 1975 Ramsar site on the Montreux Record, shrinking from ~258 km2 (1930) toward projected seasonal desiccation by 2058.
Arafura Swamp
The Arafura Swamp, known to its Yolngu Traditional Owners as Gurruwiling, is a large freshwater wetland in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, holding Australia's largest paperbark swamp and over 300,000 waterbirds.
Ashtamudi Wetland
Ashtamudi Wetland (Ashtamudi Lake), a 61.4 km² brackish Ramsar estuary (site 1204, designated 2002) in Kollam, Kerala, India; second-largest Kerala wetland, home of India's first MSC-certified clam fishery, facing pollution, salinity rise, and shrinking area.
Bahiret el Bibane
Bahiret el Bibane (Bahiret el Biban), a hypersaline coastal lagoon of about 230 km2 in southeastern Tunisia near the Libyan border, a Ramsar site since 2007 famed for its 3.5 km traditional bordigue fish barrier and nursery fisheries.
Baie d'Ad-Dakhla
Baie d'Ad-Dakhla (Dakhla Bay) is a 37 km Ramsar wetland (site 1470, 2005) on Morocco's Atlantic Sahara, the country's second most important waterbird wintering site, with Zostera noltii beds and over 120 mollusc species.
Ballynahone Bog
Ballynahone Bog is a lowland raised bog near Maghera in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, protected as a Special Area of Conservation, Ramsar site, and National Nature Reserve.
Bangweulu
Bangweulu, "where the water meets the sky," is a Zambian wetland system of Lake Bangweulu, swamps, and floodplains in the upper Congo basin, drained by the Luapula River, home to the endemic black lechwe and shoebill, a Ramsar site co-managed since 2008.
Bangweulu - Mweru
Bangweulu - Mweru is a freshwater ecoregion covering the lakes and swamps of the Bangweulu and Mweru systems in southeastern DRC and northeastern Zambia, with rich endemic fauna.
Bangweulu Swamps
The Bangweulu Swamps, meaning "where the water meets the sky," are permanent swamps and seasonally flooded grasslands in northeastern Zambia, home to the endangered black lechwe.
Beeliar Wetlands
Beeliar Wetlands: two chains of lakes and swamps in Perth's southern suburbs, mostly within Beeliar Regional Park; Thomsons Lake is Ramsar-listed, and the 2021 MRS Act rezoned the wetlands for permanent protection.
Beymelek Lagoon
Beymelek Lagoon (Beymelek Lagünü), a 255 ha brackish coastal lagoon in Demre, Antalya, Turkey, the only natural lagoon on the country's western Mediterranean coast, fed by karst springs, with a state seabass and seabream hatchery and protected wetland status.
Biebrza National Park
Biebrza National Park (Biebrzański Park Narodowy), established 9 September 1993, is Poland's largest national park at 59,223 ha, protecting the Biebrza Marshes peatlands; Ramsar site since 1995, Natura 2000 since 2004.
Biscayne Bay
Biscayne Bay is a shallow subtropical lagoon along Miami-Dade County, Florida, from Haulover Inlet to Key Largo, home to Biscayne National Park and state aquatic preserves; a $64 billion economic asset facing seagrass loss, nutrient pollution, and Everglades restoration efforts.
Blakeney Point
Blakeney Point is a shingle spit on the North Norfolk coast of England, owned by the National Trust since 1912 and home to England's largest gray seal colony.
Busanga Swamps
Located in Zambia's northwest near Kafue National Park, Busanga Swamps is a permanent wetland complex in the Lufupa River basin. It is a Ramsar site covering 2,000 km.
Camargue
Camargue: the Rhône River delta in southern France, France's largest wetland (150,000 ha). Flat, mostly below 1 m elevation; rice, salt, bulls, flamingos; Ramsar and biosphere protected, threatened by sea-level rise.
Caryapundy Swamp
Caryapundy Swamp, Ramsar Site no. 2520, is a 70,176-hectare ephemeral wetland in Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park, NSW, Australia, the terminal basin of the endorheic Bulloo River, listed 17 December 2021 for threatened species and waterbird habitat.
Central Syvash
Central Syvash (Центральний Сиваш), Ramsar Site 115 in Ukraine and Crimea, is an 80,000 ha hypersaline lagoon wetland designated in 1976, hosting about 10,000 nesting waterbird pairs and up to 1,000,000 staging birds, with salinity rising sharply after the 2014 canal closure.
Čepkeliai Marsh
Čepkeliai Marsh (Čepkelių raistas) is Lithuania's largest raised bog, 5,858 ha in Varėna district near Belarus, core of the 1975 Čepkeliai State Nature Reserve, a Ramsar, Natura 2000, and wilderness site with relict lakes, dune islands, and rare cranes and black grouse.
Charles M. Russell Wetland Management District
The Charles M. Russell Wetland Management District is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unit managing over 30,000 acres of wetland and grassland habitat across central and south-central Montana.
Chase Lake Wetland Management District
Chase Lake Wetland Management District is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unit in Stutsman and Wells counties, North Dakota, part of the Arrowwood Refuge Complex, protecting Prairie Pothole wetlands and grasslands via 136 waterfowl production areas and over 95,000 easement acres.
Chilika Lake (ଚିଲିକା ହ୍ରଦ)
Chilika Lake (ଚିଲିକା ହ୍ରଦ), Asia's largest brackish water lagoon, lies on Odisha's coast in India. India's first Ramsar site (1981), it was restored by a new sea mouth opened in 2000, reviving fisheries and migratory bird habitat.
Chott de Zehrez Gharbi
Chott de Zehrez Gharbi (Zahrez Gharbi), Ramsar site 1295 in Djelfa, Algeria, designated 2003; a 52,200 ha endorheic saline depression on the high plateaus, important for waterbirds, halophytes, salt production, and grazing.
Chott Ech Chergui
Chott Ech Chergui, a large endorheic salt basin on Algeria's High Plateaus; Ramsar site 1052 (2001, 855,500 ha); second largest chott in North Africa, with thermal springs and migratory waterbirds.
Clara Bog
Clara Bog is a raised bog about 2 km south of Clara, County Offaly, Ireland, regarded as the best remaining example of active midland raised bog in Western Europe.
Cley Marshes
Cley Marshes is a coastal wetland nature reserve at Cley next the Sea on the north Norfolk coast, bought in 1926 as the first county Wildlife Trust reserve.
Complejo Cenagoso de Zapatosa
Complejo Cenagoso de Zapatosa: Colombia's largest continental freshwater wetland, about 1,900 interconnected ciénagas in Cesar and Magdalena departments; Ramsar site (2018) and DRMI (2019), connecting the Magdalena and Cesar rivers.
Complejo de Humedales Cuyabeno Lagartococha Yasuní
Complejo de Humedales Cuyabeno Lagartococha Yasuní, Ramsar site no. 2332, Ecuador's largest Ramsar wetland (773,668 ha), designated 24 August 2017, connecting Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve and Yasuní National Park in the Amazonian Sucumbíos and Orellana provinces.
Complejo de Humedales de la Estrella Fluvial Inírida (EFI)
Estrella Fluvial Inírida (EFI), Colombia's 6th Ramsar site (No. 2217), a 250,158-ha wetland complex in Guainía where the Inírida, Guaviare, Atabapo, and Ventuari rivers form the Orinoco headwaters; designated by Decreto 1275 of 8 July 2014.