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Nemunas Delta
The Nemunas Delta (Nemuno delta) is the river delta at the mouth of the Nemunas, Lithuania's largest river, where it empties into the Curonian Lagoon, protected as a regional park and Ramsar wetland.
Niger Source
Niger Source is a 180,400-hectare Ramsar wetland in Faranah prefecture, Guinea, designated 17 January 2002, protecting the headwaters of the Niger River; also a Classified Forest since 1945.
Nigula Nature Reserve
Nigula Nature Reserve (Nigula looduskaitseala), established 11 July 1957 in Pärnu County, Estonia, protects a 6,430.9 ha West Estonian raised bog, old forests, and bog islands; Ramsar site since 1997, Natura 2000 since 2004, with bird monitoring since 1968.
North Caspian swamp
North Caspian swamp: shallow-water wetlands, reed beds and deltas of the Caspian Sea's northern basin in Kazakhstan and Russia; under 5 m deep over two-thirds of its area, Volga-fed, Ramsar-protected, and retreating as sea level falls.
Okavango Delta
Okavango Delta System: endorheic inland delta (alluvial fan) in north-western Botswana, fed by Angola's Okavango River; Ramsar site 1996, UNESCO World Heritage Site 2014; Africa's largest endorheic delta.
Okefenokee Swamp
Okefenokee Swamp: a nearly 700-square-mile blackwater peatland in southeast Georgia, headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers, a National Wildlife Refuge since 1937 and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2026.
Olvassuo Mires
Olvassuo Mires (Finnish: Olvassuo) is a large, mostly pristine aapa mire complex in northern Finland, designated a Ramsar site in 2004 and known as a breeding ground for mire birds.
Peel-Yalgorup system
Peel-Yalgorup System, Ramsar Site 482, wetland of international importance near Mandurah, Western Australia; 26,530 ha, listed 1990, over 20,000 waterbirds, Lake Clifton thrombolites, Bindjareb Noongar country.
Plaine de Massenya
Plaine de Massenya is a 2,526,000-hectare Ramsar wetland (site no. 1839) in southwestern Chad's Baguirmi region, a Chari River floodplain depression designated in 2008 with 386 bird species.
Plaines d'inondation des Bahr Aouk et Salamat
The Plaines d'inondation des Bahr Aouk et Salamat is a vast Ramsar wetland in southeastern Chad, designated in 2006 and then the world's third-largest Ramsar site.
Pollardstown Fen
Pollardstown Fen is a spring-fed calcareous fen near Newbridge in County Kildare, Ireland, the largest in the country and a National Nature Reserve, Ramsar site, and Special Area of Conservation.
Pui Pui (crocodile)
Pui Pui, female saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) found in Shan Pui River, Hong Kong, 2003; evaded hunters seven months, captured 2004, resident of Hong Kong Wetland Park since 2006.
Qeshm Island
Qeshm Island (Jazira-ye Qeshm), the largest island in the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran; about 122 km long, home to the Hara mangroves, Qeshm UNESCO Global Geopark, and a free zone; struck by desalination-plant attacks and oil pollution in the 2026 Gulf war.
Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District
The Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District, formerly Hastings Wetland Management District, is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unit protecting playa wetlands in south-central Nebraska.
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, also called Pakshi Kashi of Karnataka, is a Ramsar wetland of islets on the Cauvery River near Srirangapatna, Mandya district. Established in 1940 on Salim Ali's advice, it hosts about 170 bird species, nesting painted storks, and mugger crocodiles.
Rann of Kutch
The Rann of Kutch is a large saline salt marsh in Gujarat, India, extending into Pakistan's Sindh, divided into the Great and Little Rann, flooded each monsoon, a major salt-producing region, and the site of the 1965 India-Pakistan clash settled by the 1968 boundary arbitration.
Riverland
Riverland Ramsar site (site no. 377), a 30,640-hectare wetland along 80 km of the Murray River in South Australia, listed 23 September 1987; meets 8 of 9 Ramsar criteria, supports 20,000+ waterbirds and threatened Murray cod.
RSPB wetland reserves
RSPB wetland reserves are nature reserves of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds whose principal habitats are wetland, including Minsmere and Lakenheath Fen.
Rushy Lagoon
Rushy Lagoon is a locality and farming property on the far north-east coast of Tasmania, whose floodplain wetland is part of the Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River Ramsar site.
Sankarani-Fié
Sankarani-Fié is a Ramsar wetland site (no. 1167) in the Kankan region of Guinea, designated 17 January 2002, covering the Sankarani river basin; extended from 1,015,200 to 1,656,000 ha, noted for floodplains, fisheries, and hippopotami.
Shadegan Ponds (تالاب شادگان)
Shadegan Ponds (تالاب شادگان), or Shadegan Wetland, is Iran's largest Ramsar site (400,000 ha, Khuzestan, designated 1975), a Jarahi delta marsh and tidal mudflat complex vital for Marbled Teal, now severely shrunk by dams, pollution, and drainage.
Sistema de Humedales de la Zona Sur de Honduras
Sistema de Humedales de la Zona Sur de Honduras, Ramsar site no. 1000: seven coastal wetland areas on the Golfo de Fonseca (Choluteca and Valle), designated 10 July 1999, 69,711 ha extended to 75,031.13 ha, mangrove ecosystem threatened by shrimp aquaculture.
Sistema Delta Estuarino del Río Magdalena, Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta
Sistema Delta Estuarino del Río Magdalena, Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (SDERM CGSM): Colombia's largest coastal lagoon and first Ramsar site (1998, site 951), a Caribbean brackish wetland hit by causeway-driven mangrove die-off, partially rehabilitated by 1990s dredging, and invaded by Hydrilla verticillata in 2025.
Sistema Hidrológico de Soncor del Salar de Atacama
Sistema Hidrológico de Soncor del Salar de Atacama, Ramsar Site 876 (designated 2 December 1996, 67,133 ha), is a Chilean high-Andean wetland of shallow saline lagoons (Puilar, Chaxa, Barros Negros) fed by eastern groundwater, a key breeding site for three flamingo species within Los Flamencos National Reserve.
Sistema Lagunar Agiabampo - Bacorehuis - Río Fuerte Antiguo
Sistema Lagunar Agiabampo-Bacorehuis-Río Fuerte Antiguo, Ramsar site 1797, is a 90,804 ha five-lagoon coastal wetland on the Sonora-Sinaloa border, Gulf of California, designated 2 February 2008, with mangroves, migratory birds, and blue shrimp habitat.
Solti-síkság
Solti-síkság (Solt Plain, also Csepel-Solt-Bajaisíkság, Kalocsai-síkság) is a Hungarian geographical microregion (code 1.1.22) on the Danube's left bank in Bács-Kiskun County, a 93 m floodplain with saline soils and 99.2 D-e-Meter cropland quality.
Somerset Levels
The Somerset Levels are a low-lying, drained wetland plain of about 650 km2 in southwest England, home of the Neolithic Sweet Track, rich wetland wildlife, and extensive flood management infrastructure.
Soomaa National Park
Soomaa National Park (Soomaa Rahvuspark), established 1993 in southwestern Estonia, protects 39,843 ha of bogs, floodplains and forests across five bogs, famous for its fifth-season floods covering up to 17,500 ha and the UNESCO-listed haabjas dugout canoe.
Spree Forest
Spree Forest (Spreewald, Lower Sorbian Błota) is a 475 km² inland delta of the River Spree southeast of Berlin, a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1991 with over 250 km of navigable channels, Sorbian heritage, and the famed Spreewald gherkin.
Store Mosse National Park
Store Mosse National Park: Sweden's largest active raised bog, 7,682 ha in Småland 15 km NE of Värnamo, national park since 1982, Ramsar site 20, Natura 2000 SE0310020, with Lake Kävsjön birdlife and 2023–2025 restoration.