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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.