Gallery 0 Results Reset search Close 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 Shatt AL-Arab River, Abu al khaseeb, Basra Iraq Mustafa Abdulmttaleb Ali Mangrove Swamp, Pagbilao Quezon, Philippines Adriane B. Tobias Kakerdaja peat bog, Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, Estonia. Peatlands store twice more carbon than all the forests which helps mitigate climate change. Diana Elisa Rhine River floodplain “Grand Ried” Alsace Elena Landmann Mangroves, Djebadji coastal village Benjamin Bureau Floating house, Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazon Aline Fidelix 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