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Sudd
The Sudd is Africa's largest wetland, a White Nile floodplain swamp in South Sudan covering about 57,000 km2, a 2006 Ramsar site famed for shoebill and antelope migrations and threatened by the unfinished Jonglei Canal.
Suncheon Bay Ecological Park
Suncheon Bay Ecological Park (순천만자연생태공원) is a 2004 visitor and education complex at Suncheon Bay, South Korea, a 3,550-hectare Ramsar wetland (2006) famed for its reed beds, hooded cranes, and 1.9 million annual visitors.
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is Singapore's first ASEAN Heritage Park, a 202-hectare wetland reserve in northwest Singapore with mangroves, mudflats and over 200 bird species, opened in 1993 and gazetted in 2002.
Syvash
Syvash (Сиваш), the Rotten or Putrid Sea, is the world's largest hypersaline lagoon (about 2,560 km²) between Crimea and the Ukrainian mainland, separated from the Sea of Azov by the Arabat Spit; its salinity fell under North Crimean Canal inflow and rose sharply after the canal's 2014 closure.
Tärnasjön
Tärnasjön (Lake Tärna), Ramsar Site no. 29 in Västerbotten, Sweden, designated 5 December 1974; a 23,236 ha alpine lake on the upper Umeälven with the southernmost palsa mires in Sweden.
The Broads
The Broads (Norfolk and Suffolk Broads): Britain's largest protected wetland, a network of flooded medieval peat diggings in Norfolk and Suffolk with national-park-equivalent status, 125 miles of lock-free waterways, and the Broads Authority as its managing body.
The Fens
The Fens: drained wetlands of eastern England around The Wash, reclaimed from the 17th century by Vermuyden's Bedford Level works into prime arable land, now facing peat subsidence, pumped drainage, and the Fens 2100+ climate program.
Thorsberg moor
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsbjerg Mose) is an Iron Age war-booty sacrifice bog near Süderbrarup, Germany, excavated 1858–61 by Conrad Engelhardt; deposits c. 100 BC–5th century AD preserve Roman helmets, mail, and textiles.
Torronsuo National Park
Torronsuo National Park (Torronsuon kansallispuisto), established 1990 in Tammela, Finland, protects the largest raised bog in southern Finland, 25.5 km², with peat up to 12 m deep, Natura 2000 and Ramsar status.
Towra Point
Towra Point: 632-hectare Ramsar wetland (site 286, listed 1984) on Botany Bay's southern shore, 16 km from Sydney; largest estuarine wetland in the Sydney Basin, holding 40% of Sydney's mangroves and 60% of its saltmarsh.
Tso Kar Wetland Complex
Tso Kar Wetland Complex, Ramsar Site no. 2443 in Ladakh's Changthang region, pairs freshwater Startsapuk Tso with hypersaline Tso Kar at over 4,500 m; a black-necked crane and saker falcon breeding site.
Tuzly Lagoons (Тузлові лимани)
Tuzly Lagoons (Тузлові лимани), Shagany-Alibei-Burnas system, are brackish Black Sea limans in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine; a Ramsar site and, since 2010, a 27,865 ha national nature park.
UL Bend Wetland Management District
UL Bend Wetland Management District is the name given to the wetland management district serving UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, a 56,090-acre refuge on the Missouri River in central Montana.
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning, Ramsar site 146 in Denmark's Limfjord (Nordjylland, 18,575 ha, designated 1977), a shallow fjord and dammed brackish lagoon of international importance for Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, and Light-bellied Brent Goose.
Upper Zambezi Floodplains
Upper Zambezi Floodplains, or Barotse Floodplain (Bulozi Plain), a Ramsar floodplain-wetland ecoregion on the upper Zambezi in Zambia and Angola, annually flooded, flow-regulating, home of the Lozi people.
Vejlerne and Løgstør Bredning
Vejlerne and Løgstør Bredning: adjoining Limfjord wetlands in northern Jutland, Denmark; a 60 km² former land-reclamation area turned northern Europe's largest bird reserve, plus a 250 km² shallow fjord, jointly a 1977 Ramsar site.
Venetian Lagoon
Venetian Lagoon (Laguna di Venezia), shallow 550 km² Mediterranean tidal lagoon in northeast Italy, connected to the Adriatic by the Lido, Malamocco, and Chioggia inlets; UNESCO-listed with Venice in 1987, eroding salt marshes, MoSE flood barriers.
Wetland Management Districts of Iowa
The Wetland Management Districts of Iowa are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field offices protecting waterfowl habitat through scattered Waterfowl Production Areas and perpetual wetland easements rather than a single refuge.
Wetland Management Districts of Nebraska
The Wetland Management Districts of Nebraska are US Fish and Wildlife Service units managing scattered waterfowl production areas and easements, including the Rainwater Basin district established in 1963.
Wetlands of Tasmania
The wetlands of Tasmania are the island state's marshes, lagoons, peatlands, and saltmarshes, including 10 Ramsar sites, 89 nationally listed wetlands, and some of the southern hemisphere's most extensive blanket bogs.
WWT wetland centres and reserves
The WWT wetland centers are ten visitor reserves in the UK run by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, begun by Peter Scott at Slimbridge in 1946.
Xixi National Wetland Park (西溪国家湿地公园)
Xixi National Wetland Park (西溪国家湿地公园) in western Hangzhou is China's first national wetland park, opened May 1, 2005, a Ramsar site since 2009 combining urban, agricultural, and cultural wetlands.
Yukon Flats
Yukon Flats, Alaska: vast lowland wetland region at the Yukon, Porcupine, and Chandalar river confluence, mostly within Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; 40,000 lakes, waterfowl breeding grounds, drying wetlands, and oil and gas exploration.
Zambezi Delta (landform)
Zambezi Delta, Mozambique landform at the Zambezi River's Indian Ocean mouth; 230 km coastline, 18,000 km2 wetlands, Ramsar Marromeu site, buffalo and wattled cranes, altered by Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.
Zambezi Floodplains
Zambezi Floodplains: seasonally inundated wetlands along the Zambezi River, chiefly the Barotse Floodplain (9,000 km2 Ramsar site) plus Kafue Flats, Chobe, and Mana Pools, sustaining Lozi society, fisheries, and a seasonal flood pulse now altered by Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.