Gallery 0 Results Reset All Close 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 Fifa Nature Reserve Ramsar Convention Birdwatching hide and boardwalk, Azraq Oasis Ramsar Site Lew Young Students at the education centre, Azraq Oasis Ramsar Site Lew Young 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. Elephant Marsh Ramsar Site plays an important role in maintaining the valley’s hydrological regime, through flood control, water storage and supply of nutrient-rich sediment. Katherine Forsythe Lake Kutubu Ramsar Site Ramsar Convention Covering 2.4 million hectares, the Sepik River will be one of the largest riverine Ramsar Sites Ramsar Convention Experimental paludiculture plots to restore formerly drained and mined peatlands in the Danish Ramsar Site 2166 Lille Vildmose Tobias Salathé Ngiri-Tumba-Maindombe Ramsar Site is located around Lake Tumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The transboundary area containing one of the huge African carbon sinks through its peatland soils. Brasília - Waterfall Rômulo Oliveiro Chilliwack Lake, British Columbia, Canada Bonnie Cunningham Ilha de Mosqueiro, Belém, Amazônia Camille Silva Inle Lake, Burma - Myanmar Aungko Win Kushiro Shitsugen National Park in Hokkaido Taro Yamamoto Chilika Lake, Orissa, India - Fishing in a boat Yus Rusila Noor Al Fattah Damselflies (Rhinocypha humeralis) play an important ecological role as they are one of the most visible indicators of the ecosystem health and biophysical conditions of wetland areas in which they breed. They are also helpful to potential human health risks by consuming mosquitoes and their larvae. They also eat other small invertebrates which make them valuable in controlling harmful insect populations. Loss of damselflies could have a ripple effect on food webs. Erickson Tabayag Hawizeh Marsh Ramsar Site, a transboundary wetland, part of the Mesopotamian marshlands complex centered at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the marshes are ca.75-80% located in Iraq with the remaining area extending into the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ramsar Convention Lago La Ercina, perteneciente a los Lagos de Covadonga, Asturias, España. Situado en el emblemático Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa. Uso turístico y uso sostenible por parte de pastores particulares que viven en dicho Parque. Raquel Muñoz Fotografía de Río Ebro en su paso por El Pilar de Zaragoza. Mireia William Bernardo Libardi Andreatta A wetland in Dhaka, many kinds of birds can bee seen here, especially birds like Great egret, Little Cormorant, Lesser Whistling Duck, Asian Openbill etc. People of this area are very conscious about these wild lives...I call it a Piece of Heaven. Shahriar Aman Ducks floating on a River Krka beside my hometown Novo mesto, Slovenia. Urška Didovič, 17. Urška Didovič Bolle di Magadino - 20150301 Giulia Guldimann