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Lake Nakuwa Wetland System: 91,150 225,200 Lake Opeta Wetland System: 68,912 170,290 Lutembe Bay Wetland System: 98 240 Mabamba Bay Wetland System: 2,424 5,990 Murchison Falls-Albert Delta Wetland System: 17,293 42,730 Nabajjuzi Wetland system: 1,753 4,330 Rwenzori Mountains Ramsar Site: 99,500 246,000 Sango Bay-Musambwa Island-Kagera Wetland ...
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 ...
Pantanal is the title of a Brazilian-produced telenovela whose setting is the Brazilian Pantanal. The Jack McKinney Robotech novel Before the Invid Storm makes reference to former soldiers of the Army of the Southern Cross called the Pantanal Brigade by the character Major Alice Harper Argus.
The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee.
An ecological definition of a wetland is "an ecosystem that arises when inundation by water produces soils dominated by anaerobic and aerobic processes, which, in turn, forces the biota, particularly rooted plants, to adapt to flooding". [ 1 ] Sometimes a precise legal definition of a wetland is required.
The surface-area covered by Ramsar Sites are around 13,32,746.24 hectares [ 7 ]. [ 8 ] Tamil Nadu has the highest number of Ramsar Sites in India with 18 Ramsar Sites. [ 9 ] Till 2014 there were 26 Ramsar sites across India. Since 2014 till date 59 new Ramsar sites have been added across India.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park (previously known as the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park) is situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about 235 km (146 mi) north of Durban by road. It is South Africa's third-largest protected area, spanning 280 km (170 mi) of coastline, from the Mozambican border in the north to Mapelane south of the ...
A fen is a type of peat -accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. [1][2] It is one of the main types of wetland along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. [2] The unique water chemistry of fens is a result of the ground or surface water input.