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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.
De Biesbosch National Park
De Biesbosch National Park (Nationaal Park De Biesbosch) is Europe's largest freshwater tidal area, in North Brabant and South Holland, formed by the 1421 St. Elizabeth flood, a national park since 1994, home to about 300 beavers.
Desert Hot Springs, California
Desert Hot Springs, California: a Riverside County city in the northern Coachella Valley, incorporated 1963, famed for hot mineral spring spa resorts, the Desert Hot Springs Subbasin aquifer, and a 2026 data center moratorium.
Devils Hole
Devils Hole: water-filled geothermal cave in southern Nevada, disjunct unit of Death Valley National Park; sole home of the endangered Devils Hole pupfish, a 92°F pool with a 215-square-foot shelf and a half-million-year calcite climate record.
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.
Drosera anglica
Drosera anglica (English sundew, mikinalo) is a circumboreal carnivorous sundew, an allopolyploid hybrid of D. rotundifolia and D. linearis with 2n = 40, native also to Kauaʻi's montane wetlands.
Drosera capensis
Drosera capensis, the Cape sundew, is a perennial carnivorous plant native to South Africa's Cape Provinces. It traps insects with sticky mucilage tentacles, curls its leaf into an outer stomach, digests prey with enzymes, and self-pollinates readily.
Drosera rotundifolia
Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved or common sundew, is a carnivorous Droseraceae perennial of Northern Hemisphere bogs, with sticky round flypaper leaves, 2n=20, studied by Darwin, parent of D. anglica.
Dudhsagar Falls
Dudhsagar Falls (Sea of Milk), a four-tiered ~310 m waterfall on the Mandovi River in Goa's Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary near the Karnataka border; reached via Kulem, with regulated jeep and guided-trek access.
Dunn's River Falls
Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Jamaica: a terraced travertine waterfall emptying into the Caribbean Sea, climbed in guided human chains, owned by the UDC, reopened after Hurricane Melissa in November 2025.
Dunton Hot Springs
Dunton Hot Springs is an all-inclusive luxury resort in a restored 1885 Colorado ghost town on the West Fork Dolores River, with 42°C calcium bicarbonate springs, 13-14 historic cabins, and no day-use access.
Dyke Marsh
Dyke Marsh (Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve) is a 485-acre freshwater tidal wetland on the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, part of George Washington Memorial Parkway, degraded by 1940-1972 gravel dredging and now slated for restoration.
Eastern Congolian swamp forests
Eastern Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'est du Congo): tropical swamp forest ecoregion on the left bank of the Congo River in DRC and Republic of Congo, 9.29 million ha, bonobo habitat, part of the world's largest tropical peatland complex.
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture (EHJV), Plan conjoint des habitats de l'Est, is a Canadian waterfowl habitat partnership founded in 1989 under NAWMP, covering Ontario through Newfoundland and Labrador, 315 million hectares, 30% of Canada's wetlands.
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.
Ein Gedi (עין גדי)
Ein Gedi (עין גדי), a spring-fed oasis on the Dead Sea's western shore in the Judean Desert, a nature reserve since 1971 with four springs, ancient irrigation, a synagogue, and 2025 flood restoration.
El Charco de Bristol
El Charco de Bristol (Charca de Brístol) is a small 100 m coastal lagoon and salt marsh in Corralejo, La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands; the island's only Sarcocornia perennis site, an IBA wading-bird wetland, and a dog-friendly beach.
El Tatio
El Tatio is a geyser field at about 4,300 m elevation in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, one of the world's largest, with over 80 thermal features across 10 km2, studied geysers El Jefe and El Cobreloa, and community co-management since 2006.
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-645 (16 U.S.C. ch. 59), a US wetland conservation law: defines wetlands by hydric soils, hydrophytic vegetation and hydrology, opens Land and Water Conservation Fund money for wetland acquisition, and creates the National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan.
Eternal Flame Falls
Eternal Flame Falls (Chestnut Ridge Falls), in Shale Creek Preserve, Chestnut Ridge Park, Orchard Park, New York: a 30-foot two-tier waterfall with a methane-fed natural gas flame burning in a grotto behind it, relit by hikers when it goes out.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, the river red gum or Murray red gum, is an Australian Myrtaceae tree of watercourses and floodplains, the most widely distributed eucalypt with seven subspecies, flood- and groundwater-dependent, and widely planted and invasive abroad.
European eel
European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a catadromous fish spawning in the Sargasso Sea; critically endangered with 90-95% recruitment decline since the 1980s, subject to EU closures and ICES zero-catch advice.
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.
Fagne
Fagne is a French and Walloon word for a small boggy marsh on high ground in the Ardennes, fitting peat bogs so well it became their standard local name.
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.
Fen
A fen is a peat-forming wetland fed by groundwater and mineral soil drainage rather than rain, making it less acidic and more nutrient-rich than a bog.
Filipendula ulmaria
Filipendula ulmaria, known as meadowsweet or queen-of-the-meadow, is a perennial herb of the rose family native to Europe and western Asia, growing in wet meadows, fens, and riverbanks with fragrant white flowers.
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.