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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lake Kaņieris
Lake Kaņieris (Kaņiera ezers) is a shallow lagoon-origin lake in Ķemeri National Park, Latvia; 1,122 ha, 13th largest in Latvia, Ramsar site since 1995, rich in birds and pike.
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires (Lätäsenon-Hietajoen suot), Ramsar Site 1520 in Enontekiö, Lapland: a 43,367 ha palsa mire and river complex protected since 1988, part of Käsivarren erämaa Natura 2000 area.
Marais poitevin
Marais poitevin is a man-made wetland in western France, reclaimed from the former Gulf of Pictons; at about 100,000 hectares it is France's second largest wetland.
Martimoaapa - Lumiaapa - Penikat Mires
Martimoaapa-Lumiaapa-Penikat Mires, also called Martimoaapa mire reserve, is a 14,086 ha Ramsar site no. 11 and Natura 2000 SAC/SPA in Simo and Keminmaa, Sea Lapland, Finland, designated in 1974, established as a mire reserve in 1981, with nearly 100 nesting bird species.
Muddus National Park
Muddus National Park (Sámi: Muttos), Norrbotten, Sweden: 49,340-ha national park founded 1942, Sweden's largest forest national park, with 700-year-old pines, the 42 m Muddus Waterfall, and Laponia World Heritage membership since 1996.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.