Gallery 0 Résultats Reset All Close Xe Champhone Wetlands. Local people engage in rice paddy farming, communal fishing, and cattle and water buffalo raising. Quoi Le Phat Sporovsky peatland reserve & Ramsar Site is Europe's largest pristine peatland, and one of the target sites of project activities in Belarus. UNDP Trappola Marshland - Ombrone River Mouth Giuseppe Anselmi 2012 Barrière de Corail Nosy Ve Androka, Madagascar Madagascar National Parks 2013 Complexe des Zones Humides de Bemanevika Tolojanahary Andriamalala 2013 Byle Lake and Koza Berezyna Mire Oksana Golovko 2011 Archipelago Velyki and Mali Kuchugury Viktor Busel 2014 Zhaling Lake Ramsar Site He Youfu Zhaling Lake Ramsar Site Ma Shenglu Eling Lake Ramsar Site Lin Kun Eling Lake Ramsar Site Wang Haifeng 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 An ariel view of the Gabaldon floodplain of Neuva Ecija, Philippines. Floodplains can be compared to giant reservoirs that when left intact store flood waters. Gabriel B. Mejia Mangroves along the Watamu coastal town, Kenya. Paloma de Andrés Ródenas Shatt AL-Arab River, Abu al khaseeb, Basra Iraq Mustafa Abdulmttaleb Ali Mangrove Swamp, Pagbilao Quezon, Philippines Adriane B. Tobias