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The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (or simply the Partnership) is one of the 28 National Estuary Programs created in the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act.The Partnership is a non-regulatory federal-state-local collaboration working to restore water quality and manage the natural resources of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta estuary.
The Duddon Estuary is an Important Bird Area. [3] Species to be seen include pintail, red knot and common redshank with wintering waterfowl including common shelduck, red-breasted mergansers, Eurasian oystercatchers, ringed plover, dunlin and Eurasian curlew. In 1998 it was designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) under the Birds Directive ...
[a] The marsh land is part of a tidal estuary, and subject to tidal ebb and flood. The marsh is home to many species of birds and other wildlife, and is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers between Martinez and Suisun City, California and several other smaller, local watersheds.
It is the second largest estuary complex in the United States. The peninsula is made up of wildlife preserves, agricultural lands, and both federal- and state-owned preserves. [ 2 ] It previously contained over 500,000 acres of Atlantic white cedar forest ; less than 5% of this remains due to farming and drainage of the area that began with ...
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission is a NOAA coastal zone managing agency within the San Francisco Estuary that partners with the reserve on coastal resilience and planning. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was involved in the South Bay during the reserve's planning phase.
The Ribble Estuary in 1917. The estuaries of the River Ribble and River Alt lie on the Irish Sea coasts of Lancashire and Merseyside in North West England.Together they, and the area of salt marsh, mudflats, and sand dunes between them, form a Special Protection Area and Ramsar site which covers the coastline between Crosby and Lytham St Annes.
The estuary has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it supports a significant population of fairy terns, is a drought refuge for blue-billed ducks, and sometimes holds over 1% of the world populations of red-necked stints, sharp-tailed sandpipers, banded stilts, red-necked avocets and red-capped plovers. [8]