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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 island, an environmentally protected area under the Sharjah Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA), [8] [9] has been registered on the list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, [10] [11] [12] and was in 2012 listed as a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site. [13]
The Sharjah Light Festival (SLF) [8] is a light show that takes place annually in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The festival was first established in 2010 under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and has since become an integral part of the ...
As of February 2025, 171 states have acceded to the convention and designated 2,531 sites to the list, covering 257,909,286 hectares (637,307,730 acres); one other state has acceded to the convention but has yet to designate any sites. The complete list of the wetlands is accessible on the Ramsar Sites Information Service website. [3]
United Arab Emirates accepted the convention on May 11 2001, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2024, The United Arab Emirates have only one World Heritage Site, Al Ain, which was inscribed in 2011. [2]
This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.
Map of protected area. Wadi Wurayah (Arabic: وَادِي ٱلْوُرَيْعَة, romanized: Wādī Al-Wurayʿah) is a 12,700-hectare (31,000-acre) wadi between the towns of Masafi, Khor Fakkan, and Bidiyah in the United Arab Emirates. It has been designated as Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. [3]