Gallery 0 Results Reset search Close Eling Lake Ramsar Site Lin Kun At over 12 000 feet above sea level, on the border of Peru and Boliva, Lake Titicaca Ramsar Site is the highest large navigable lake in the world. Paul Steyn The sacred wetland that has provided food, water and transport to the generations of humans, is now struggling with a massive pollution problem. Paul Steyn Plantations on burnt and drained peatlands in the coastal area are exposed to subsidence and increased flooding Tobias Salathé Drained and burnt peatland area in the buffer zone of the Berbak National Park Tobias Salathé The East Kolkata Wetlands Ramsar Site (India) has provided a vital service in receiving and treating the waste water from the city of Kolkata. Each day, the wetland receives some 1,000 million litres of sewage. This natural waste water treatment system developed by the local community with their traditional wisdom saves the city the cost of having to build and maintain a conventional treatment plant . Ramsar Convention Kota Kinabalu Wetland Sabah Wetlands Conservation Society A Ramsar Site of International Importance, the wetland on the edge of the Inner Deep Bay is an important stop-off point for migrating water birds on the flyway between New Zealand and Siberia as they move north and south for the summer and winter. Paul Steyn Paul Steyn The unique balance between people and nature at Mai Po seems to be working, but the slow march of urbanization in Hong Kong and China represents one of the largest threats to the wetland. Paul Steyn Mai Po Ramsar Site is a patchwork of fishponds, marshes, mangrove, mudflats and shrimp ponds that blend with the skyscrapers in the distance, Mai Po is sandwiched between Hong Kong and China’s Shenzhen city, and has become an unlikely paradise for water birds from all over the world. Paul Steyn Kut Ting Marshland Ramsar Site in Thailand Lew Young The Prek Toal Ramsar Site includes some of the most pristine floodplains in the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve in Cambodia.The local communities live in floating houses and depend on fishing and aquaculture for their livelihoods. Lew Young Fifa Ramsar Site manager, Ibrahim Mahasneh receiving the "Ramsar Site" certificate from Ramsar Convention Senior Regional Advisor for Asia-Oceania, Lew Young, at the official designation event Ramsar Convention Fifa Nature Reserve Ramsar Convention Birdwatching hide and boardwalk, Azraq Oasis Ramsar Site Lew Young Traditionally painted eggs for sale at the Azraq Oasis Ramsar Site Lew Young Gulf of Mottama Ramsar Site East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership Gulf of Mottama Christoph Zöckler 2017 Erymnochelys madagascariensis, Zones humides d'Ambondrobe Lance Woolaver, Durrell Madagascar, 2016 Iles Barren Patrick Demortier - ASF Belgique, 2016 Mangroves de Tsiribihina Harison Andriambelo (WWF MDCO), 2016 The Site mostly lies on limestone through which groundwater aquifers are formed and recharged. Ramsar Convention Gippsland Lakes Ramsar Site, Australia Official site for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The Peel-yalgorup Ramsar Site is the most important area for waterbirds and waders in Southwest Australia, regularly supporting over 20,000 individuals. The system supports a regionally important estuarine fishery. The area is used extensively for recreational purposes. David Rennie Elephant Marsh Dr. Katherine Forsythe It was named “Elephant Marsh” by the explorer David Livingstone in 1859, who counted as many as 800 elephants in one sighting. Nowadays the elephants are largely gone, but the Site supports over 20,000 waterbirds.