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Dongbaekdongsan Wetland

Dongbaekdongsan wetland has been designated additionally as the Ramsar Wetland in March 14, 2011 for continuous preservation and protection.


African Marsh Harrier

It is usually found in wetland areas, especially those with reeds, but also occurs in grassland and farmland where it forages.

America's Wetland Foundation

The 2007 Miss Louisiana USA winner Elizabeth McNulty has worked with America's WETLAND Foundation as well as the America's WETLAND Conservation Corps.

Antipodes Water Company

It has developed a wetland and replanted native kahikatea forest on the land surrounding the bottling facility, and has cut its energy use by installing solar panels that heat water for its laboratory and testing facilities.

Ashtamudi Lake

The Kallada river, which originates near Ponmudi from the Kulathupuzha hills Western Ghats in Thiruvananthapuram District, is formed by the confluence of three rivers, viz., Kulathupuzha, Chenthurnipuzha, and Kalthuruthipuzha, and after traversing a distance of about 121 km (75 mi) through virgin forests finally debouches into the Ashtamudi wetland at Neendakara (a fishing harbour) near Kollam as it enters the Lakshadweep Sea, part of the Arabian Sea.

Cà Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex

The project is located by the junction of two rivers, near to Lower U Minh National Park, a low wetland area.

Caroni

Caroni Swamp, a major wetland on the west coast of the island of Trinidad

Chignecto Bay

It includes the 10.2 km² John Lusby National Wildlife Area, which is recognized as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since October 1985.

Earthmind

Earthmind has been working with IUCN and Ramsar in order to provide a work programme enables Danone to invest in wetland carbon projects to offset emissions from its Evian brand.

East Kolkata Wetlands

The East Calcutta Wetlands were designated a "wetland of international importance" under the Ramsar Convention on August 19, 2002.

Escalera de los Moros

The Escalera de los Moros (Moors lader) is a medieval-Islamic public building works aimed at a Dam or wetland located on the promenade of the Oron river outside the village of Librilla, Murcia, Spain.

Esri Canada

In 2010, Esri Canada was named into the Diamond Legacy League of Ducks Unlimited Canada for contributing more than $1,000,000 in technology and services in support of wetland conservation.

Ginini Flats Wetlands Ramsar Site

The Ginini Flats Wetlands Ramsar Site, also known as the Ginini Flats Subalpine Bog Complex, is a wetland in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) that has been recognised as being of international importance by designation under the Ramsar Convention.

Halaco Engineering Co.

1980: USEPA issued an enforcement order under the Clean Water Act stating that the disposal site was a wetland and required a NPDES permit for operation.

Hiwassee River

At this point the river interfaces with the impoundment of Chickamauga Dam (located in Chattanooga, Tennessee), and many marshes and wetlands surround the main channel, providing areas for hunting and fishing.

Iowa Arboretum

The arboretum contains hundreds of species of trees, shrubs, and flowers arranged in 19 collections (40 acres) as follows: Butterfly Garden, Children's Garden, Columnar Trees, Conifers, Dwarf Garden, Flowering Trees, Founders Grove, Herbs, Hostas, Large Deciduous Trees, Medium Deciduous Trees, Nut Trees, Perennials, Shade Garden, Shrubs, Trees under Utility Wires, Wetland Trees, Windbreak, and Winter Interest.

Jason Garey

Garey is a spokesman for Vanishing Paradise, a joint campaign by Ducks Unlimited and the National Wildlife Federation to raise awareness for wetlands preservation in his home state of Louisiana.

Kaikaluru

The lake was created as a wildlife sanctuary in November 1999 under India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, and designated a wetland of international importance in November 2002 under the international Ramsar Convention.

King Creek, Ontario

The King Creek Marsh is a provincially significant wetland, wholly marshes, primarily composed of submergent vegetation and narrow-leaved emergents.

Kiritappu Wetland

Kiritappu Wetland is on the northeast side of Japan, on the east side of Hokkaidō, facing the Pacific Ocean between Kushiro and Nemuro.

Kualoa Regional Park

The site is popular with watchers of wetland birds, such as the Japanese White-eye, Red-crested Cardinal, White-rumped Shama, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-necked Stilt, Nutmeg Mannikin, Black Noddy, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, White-tailed Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Common Myna, Common Waxbill, Cattle Egret and a variety of others.

Lake Grace North

It is one of four lakes in the area comprising the Lake Grace System, a DIWA-listed wetland of national importance.

Lake Hawdon System Important Bird Area

The wetland system was identified by BirdLife International as an IBA because it regularly supports over 1% of the world populations of Red-necked Stint, and often of Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, Double-banded Plovers and Banded Stilts.

Lake Mai-Ndombe

The lake is within the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe area, the largest Wetland of International Importance recognized by the Ramsar Convention in the world.

Lake Manpo and Lake Bonpo Important Bird Area

It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of various water- and wetland birds including Swan Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Whooper Swans, Oriental Storks, White-naped Cranes and Red-crowned Cranes.

Landscape scale conservation

A key inspiration for this approach was the Oostvaardersplassen near Amsterdam, a huge wetland landscape that is managed largely through natural processes.

Lantau Trail

The Yi O village area has protected wetland area and is one of the few habitats of Hong Kong's endemic and rare Romer's tree frog.

Liu Xingtu

As the leader of National Key Technology R&D Program of China in the region of the Songnen and Sanjiang Plains, he has been presided over many major programs and projects, such as the survey of agricultural resources, the ecological engineering of wetland, the soil and water control of low-lying farmland, the sustainable development of regional agriculture and so on.

Llanos de Challe National Park

Park's seashore and surrounding area feature unspoiled white sand beaches and a coastal wetland, which shelters Common Moorhens, Red-gartered Coots, Black-necked Swans and Flamingos.

Lower Silvermine River Wetlands

Alien vegetation is still a threat, as is the excessive proliferation of the indigenous Bulrush (Typha) which is caused by unnatural quantities of minerals and nutrients being washed into the wetland from urban storm water.

Monk's Wall nature reserve

Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust proposed the design and a management plan which included modifications to ditches and control of water levels to create ecological conditions that attract wetland species of plants, animals and birds.

National Trails System

You can experience the subtle beauties of the southern wetlands and Gulf Coast on the Florida Trail or wander the North Woods from New York to Minnesota on the North Country Trail or experience the vast diversity of landscapes of the southwest on the Arizona National Scenic Trail.

Newtown Cunningham

Newtown Cunningham is located close to Blanket Nook, a wetland area that is a wintering site for the rare Whooper Swan.

Nottawasaga River

It flows through the Minesing Wetlands, recognized as a wetland of international significance (Ramsar Convention site), and empties into Nottawasaga Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay, at Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

Point Lonsdale

Next to the town is Lake Victoria a shallow saline lake that is part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve and an important site for the waterbirds and migratory waders that form part of the population using the Ramsar-listed Swan Bay wetland system.

Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award

The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award was established in 1996 by a resolution at the 6th meeting of the Ramsar Convention, an international environmental treaty organisation, with the intention of recognising and honouring the work of governments, organisations and individuals in promoting the wise use and conservation of wetlands.

Sasyk Lagoon

It is a Ramsar listed wetland site important for migrating, breeding and moulting birds.

South Arm Important Bird Area

The wetland system has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports well over 1% of the global population of Pied Oystercatchers.

St. Croix Wetland Management District

The St. Croix Wetland Management District is adjacent to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area of two million people.

Sydney Park

Stormwater retention ponds constructed in the eastern section of the site have been transformed into wetland habitats, partially recreating the original character of the eastern part of the site, and this has attracted a wide variety of bird and animal life including Dusky Moorhens, Australian Magpies and Pelicans.

Thelnetham

North of the village and along the river is the Blo' Norton and Thelnetham Fen Site of Special Scientific Interest, an important calcarous fen wetland site supporting a range of rare species such as black bog rush Schoenus nigricans and saw sedge Cladium mariscus plant species.

Uranium poisoning in Punjab

Tests on ground water carried out by Dr Chander Parkash, a wetland ecologist and Dr Surinder Singh, also at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, found the highest average concentration of uranium 56.95 µg/l, in the town of Bhucho Mandi in Bathinda district, a short distance from the ash pond of Lehra Mohabat thermal power plant.

Volo Bog State Natural Area

The entire state park displays a microcosm of plant succession, from bog, through wetland, to sedge-grass meadow.

Wandle Meadow Nature Park

Wetland plants and animals include small sweet-grass, eared willow and broad-bodied chaser dragonflies.


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