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A pair of fulvous whistling ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) at Wasit Wetland CentreWasit Wetland Centre is a conservation area in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.It preserves an area of a type of wetland (sabkha or salt plain) once common along the western coastal plains of the UAE and consists of a visitor centre with viewing points to both captive and wild birds, as well as extensive areas of ...
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The entire area drains into the bay through rivers such as the Churchill, Severn, and Attawapiskat. The region is located in the extreme north of Ontario, extending into both Manitoba to the west and Quebec in the east, and covers around 25 percent of Ontario's total land area (approximately 228,400 km 2).
The Nottawasaga River is a river in Simcoe County and Dufferin County in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin, and is a tributary of Lake Huron.The river flows from the Orangeville Reservoir in the town of Orangeville, Dufferin County, through the Niagara Escarpment [2] and the Minesing Wetlands, the latter a wetland of international significance (Ramsar Convention ...
The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.
Ontario was inhabited by the Tongva people for over 1,000 years. [11] Their country is now known as Tovaangar. The Ontario area was connected to the village of Cucamonga, whose location is not now precisely known. The Spanish Empire's New Spain Portolá expedition found and named the Santa Ana River in 1769. [12] They also explored the ...
Occasional large wetlands occur along the river. One of the largest is the Innisville Wetlands, a provincially significant wetland that is also designated an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest. [10] Another large wetland is the Appleton Silver Maple Swamp. These wetlands depend upon the seasonal cycles of the river.