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Complejo de Humedales de Matusagaratí
Complejo de Humedales de Matusagaratí, Ramsar site 2566 in Darién, Panama: 64,750-hectare wetland designated 28 June 2024, Panama's sixth Ramsar site, its largest wetland, with 259 bird and 51 fish species.
Complejo Lagunar Bahía Guásimas - Estero Lobos
Complejo Lagunar Bahía Guásimas-Estero Lobos (Ramsar site 1790) is a 135,198-hectare coastal wetland complex in Sonora, Mexico, designated 2 February 2008, with mangroves, major wintering waterbird and brant populations, and Yaqui territory.
Coorong National Park
Coorong National Park (Kurrangk) protects a 100-plus-km hypersaline coastal lagoon at the end of the River Murray in South Australia, a Ramsar wetland managed with barrage environmental flows and home to the Ngarrindjeri people.
Coral reef lagoon
Coral reef lagoon: the shallow, sheltered water body between a reef and shore or inside an atoll rim, connected to the ocean by channels and passes; sandy substrate, patch reefs, distinct benthic communities, lowest coral diversity on lagoon slopes.
Curonian Spit
The Curonian Spit (Kuršių nerija, Куршская коса) is a 98 km transboundary sand-dune peninsula between the Baltic Sea and Curonian Lagoon, a 2000 UNESCO cultural landscape shaped by dune stabilization works.
Danube Delta
The Danube Delta, where the Danube meets the Black Sea across Romania and Ukraine, is Europe's largest and best-preserved delta: a 580,000-ha UNESCO biosphere reserve with Chilia, Sulina, and Sfântu Gheorghe branches, over 300 bird species, and heavy human modification.
Dasht-e Nawar
Dasht-e Nawar (Dašt-e Nāwor, "plain of the lake") is a 3,100 m high basin with a brackish lake about 60 km west of Ghazni, Afghanistan, known for Paleolithic sites, Afghanistan's only obsidian source, destroyed Kushan trilingual inscriptions, and a lithium-bearing playa.
Don Hoi Lot
Don Hoi Lot (ดอนหอยหลอด) is a Ramsar-listed wetland of sandbars and mudflats at the Mae Klong River mouth in Samut Songkhram Province, Thailand, designated a Wetland of International Importance in 2001.
Drömling
Drömling, a fen lowland and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (2023) between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; drained since 1770 into the 'Land of a Thousand Ditches' with 2,200 km of watercourses across about 452 square kilometers.
Eastern Syvash
Eastern Syvash (Ramsar site 769) is a 165,000 ha shallow hypersaline lagoon wetland in Kherson and Crimea, Ukraine, designated 1997, vital for migratory waterbirds, occupied by Russia since 2014 and fully since 2022.
Eighty Mile Beach
Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia: a 220 km coastline and Mandora Salt Marsh Ramsar site (no. 480, listed 1990, 175,487 ha) between Port Hedland and Broome, a major East Asian-Australasian flyway shorebird stop-over supporting up to 500,000 birds.
Everglades
The Everglades, the subtropical "River of Grass" wetland of southern Florida, once covered nearly 11,000 square miles; about half remains, and the 2000 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, now projected above $23 billion, seeks to restore its water flows.
Farewell Spit
Farewell Spit (Onetahua) is New Zealand's longest sand spit, 25 km, at the northern tip of the South Island; a Ramsar wetland, bird sanctuary, pilot whale stranding site, and home to an 1870 lighthouse.
Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps
Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps: two Ramsar-listed wetlands (designated 21 October 2002) near Leeton, Riverina, NSW, Australia, famed for waterbird diversity, threatened Australasian bittern and brolga, and Wiradjuri heritage at Koonadan.
Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River
Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River, Ramsar Site no. 257, is a 3,534-hectare Tasmanian wetland designated in 1982, meeting Ramsar criteria 1-4 with six threatened species and 11 migratory bird species.
Gambie-Koulountou
Gambie-Koulountou (Ramsar Site 1578) is a 368,193-hectare wetland in Boké region, Guinea, on the Senegal border, covering the Koulountou River floodplain, the Gambia River's main tributary, designated 14 November 2005.
Gavkhouni (گاوخونی)
Gavkhouni (گاوخونی), also Gavkhuni or Gavkhooni, is a shallow saline Ramsar wetland (476 km2, designated 1975) east of Isfahan, Iran, terminal to the Zayandeh-Rud River, now almost completely dry from over-abstraction and drought.
Govater Bay and Hur-e-Bahu
Govater Bay and Hur-e-Bahu is a 75,000-hectare Ramsar wetland in southeast Iran on the Gulf of Oman coast, designated in 1999, home to marsh crocodiles and Dalmatian pelicans.
Grand Kankakee Marsh
Grand Kankakee Marsh, the "Everglades of the North," was a vast Kankakee River wetland in Indiana and Illinois, over 500,000 acres, drained for farmland from 1869 to the 1920s; only about 13 percent of the basin's wetlands remain.
Grande Sebkha d'Oran
Grande Sebkha d'Oran (Great Sebkha of Oran) is a 56,870-ha closed saline depression south of Oran, Algeria; Ramsar site 1055 since 2001, an IBA for greater flamingo, fed by a 1,890 km² endorheic basin with brine near 180 g/L chlorides.
Great Dismal Swamp
The Great Dismal Swamp is a 113,000-acre forested peatland refuge in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the largest remnant of a once million-acre wetland, drained by 150 miles of ditches, home to Lake Drummond and historic maroon communities, now being rewetted through 64 water-control structures.
Gur Swamps
The Gur Swamps are the wetlands of the Gur River, an Amur tributary in Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East, protected within the Gursky zakaznik for fish conservation.
Hammar Marsh
Hammar Marsh (Hawr al-Hammar), one of the three Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq south of the Euphrates; drained in the 1990s, reflooded after 2003, Ramsar site since 2014.
Hawizeh Marsh
Hawizeh Marsh (Haur Al-Hawizeh), a transboundary Mesopotamian wetland on the Iraq–Iran border (Iranian part Haur Al-Azim), Iraq's first Ramsar site (2007, 137,700 ha), Montreux Record 2010, degraded by dams and drought.
Hong Kong Wetland Park (香港湿地公园)
Hong Kong Wetland Park (香港湿地公园), opened 20 May 2006 in Tin Shui Wai, is a 61-hectare ecotourism and conservation facility with a 10,000 m² Visitor Centre and 60-hectare Wetland Reserve built on an ecological mitigation area.
Humedales del Delta del Río Colorado
Humedales del Delta del Río Colorado: two Ramsar wetland sites (814, 1996, 250,000 ha; 1822, 2008, 127,614 ha) in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, desert wetlands on the Pacific Flyway fed by canal seepage and irrigation return flows.
Hutt Lagoon
Hutt Lagoon (Pink Lake) is a ~70 km² hypersaline coastal brine lagoon near Port Gregory, Western Australia, pink from Dunaliella salina carotenoids, hosting the world's largest microalgae beta-carotene farm and a former 1924 salt industry.
Inner Niger Delta
The Inner Niger Delta (Delta intérieur du Niger) is a vast inland floodplain in central Mali, defined by the spreading Niger and Bani rivers between Djenné and Tombouctou.
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords (Karrebæk, Dybsø og Avnø Fjorde) are shallow coastal lagoons and fjords on southwestern Zealand, Denmark, a Ramsar site since 1977, important for wintering waterbirds and breeding gray seals.
Kerala backwaters
The Kerala backwaters, also called the Backwaters of Kerala, are a network of canals, lakes, and lagoons stretching over 900 kilometers along India's Malabar Coast, best known for houseboat cruises and tourism.