The Ramsar Photo Gallery

Photo essay: Some potential threats to wetlands (file 1)

New pix coming, from time to time, until this page is full. Then there will be another one.

The Marshall Islands (Photo: Bill Phillips)

Discarded pesticide canisters, Menderes Delta, Turkey (Photo: WWF/Michel Gunther)

Polluted pond in the United Kingdom (Photo: WWF/Jonathan Plant)

Agriculture and irrigation, Dadia Reserve, Greece (Photo: WWF/Michel Gunther)

Dam construction on the Danube, Szigetköa, Hungary (Photo: WWF/Hartmut Jungius)

Illegal boat dock construction, Lake Chatuga, Georgia (USA)

Cleaning a canal during mating season, Menderes, Turkey. (Photo: WWF/Michael Gunther)

Nice new irrigation canals for the Biebrza Marshes, Poland (Photo: WWF/Fred Hazelhoft)

This could be your wetland.

Go to Threats File 2.

Note: Many of these photos were lent to the Ramsar Bureau free of charge by the PhotoLibrary of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International) for use in various Ramsar publications. It would not be a good idea to reproduce them for other uses without checking with the WWF PhotoLibrary first.

For further information about the Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 8 June 2000, updated 13 September 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.