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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 ...
It has been declared a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention and a national park in 1992 [4] The park has degraded since 1990, mainly due to illegal logging and fires. Major fires occurred in 1994, and again in 1997, destroying about 12,000 ha in the central area of the park along the Air Hitam Laut River, and about ...
It is one of the 89 Ramsar sites in India now. Kanwar jheel, as it is locally called, is located 22 km north-west of Begusarai Town in Manjhaul. It is a residual oxbow lake, formed due to meandering of Burhi Gandak [ 6 ] river, a tributary of Ganga, in the geological past. [ 7 ]
The list of Ramsar sites in Honduras includes wetlands in Honduras that are considered to be of "international importance" under the Ramsar Convention. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For a full list of all Ramsar sites worldwide, see the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance .
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As of March 2013 there were 35 Ramsar sites in Russia, totalling an area of 103,237.67 km 2. [ 1 ] The first Russian sites registered in the Ramsar Convention, on 11 October 1976 (during the Soviet era ), were Kandalaksha Bay Lake Khanka and the Volga River delta .
This list of Ramsar sites in South Africa are wetland environs that are considered to be of international importance, and protected under the Ramsar Convention. As of 2024, South Africa has 30 such sites covering 574 028 hectares. [1] [2] For a complete list of all Ramsar sites worldwide, see the List of Ramsar wetlands of international importance.
The number of Ramsar sites in Tunisia is 42 in 2022, corresponding in total to 844,685 hectares of land coverage. [1] Below is a list of these sites. Tunisia started to take part in the Ramsar Convention in 1981 and has many Wetlands of significant size, such as the Chott el Jerid and Ichkeul Lake , a UNESCO World Heritage Center.