United States of America | The Convention on Wetlands, The Convention on Wetlands

Entry into force

18 December 1986

Ramsar sites

41

Surface area of

1.884.551

ha

All sites in United States of America

Image gallery

Lower Wisconsin Riverway

Lower Wisconsin Riverway

Lower Wisconsin Riverway — Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Timothy Jacobson

Lower Wisconsin Riverway — Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Timothy Jacobson

This is a glass frog near a stream in Western Ecuador. This species is about the size of a dime and they wait for seasonal rains to breed and lay their eggs
Zane Johnson

Christchurch waterfront, VA
Hao Iris

Everglades National Park is a U.S. National Park in Florida
Daysi Umpierre

Cado Lake, Texas
Amber Cole

View of Crater Lake ,OR
Alejandra Lozada

Everglades National Park is a U.S. National Park in Florida
Daysi Umpierre

Ethan Staats is a M.Sc. graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University studying biology. His research interests include predator-prey interaction ecology, Wetlands biodiversity and ecosystems function, and evolutionary biology, and he has worked with aquatic macro-invertbrates in his research. He believes that photography is a good way to communicate the beauty and uniqueness found in nature.
Ethan Staats

Horse among the salt marsh in the Rachel Carson Reserve, in Beaufort, North Carolina, east coast of United States. Management of these wild horses has been successful in this coastal wetland reserve since 1990's. Photo taken in June, 2014.
Rafaela Granzotti

View of Mt Hood, from Trillium Lake OR
Alejandra Lozada