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This list of Ramsar sites in the United States are those wetlands that are considered to be of international importance, protected under the Ramsar Convention treaty. The United States as of 2020, has 41 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" with a surface area of 1,884,551 hectares (7,276.29 sq mi; 18,845.51 km 2).
The Ramsar List organizes the Ramsar sites according to the contracting party that designated each to the list. Contracting parties are grouped into six "regions": Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. [ 2 ]
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Harike Wetland is a Ramsar site in India Map of Ramsar sites Archipel Bolama-Bijagos Ramsar site in Guinea-Bissau Walkway in Zuvintas Biosphere Reserve. A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, [1] also known as "The Convention on Wetlands", an international environmental treaty signed on 2 February 1971 in Ramsar, Iran, under ...
As of October 2024, there are 172 contracting parties and 2,521 designated sites covering 257,317,367 hectares (635,845,060 acres). 171 of the contracting parties have designated at least one Ramsar site, and 32 of the contracting countries have only one site. The country with the most sites is the United Kingdom with 175.
In addition to designation as a Biosphere Reserve, 2,500 km 2 (620,000 acres) within Colorado River Delta (Humedales del Delta del Río Colorado) are designated as a Ramsar Wetland under the U.N. Convention on Wetlands. Ramsar Wetlands are wetlands of international importance in terms of their ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology.
Ramsar sites in North Macedonia (3 P) Ramsar sites in Norway (54 P) O. Ramsar sites in Oman (2 P) P. Ramsar sites in Pakistan (20 P) Ramsar sites in Palau (1 P)
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