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List of Ramsar Sites

List of wetlands protected under the Ramsar Convention

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
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Ramsar sites are Wetlands of International Importance protected under the Ramsar Convention. The Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value. The convention establishes that "wetlands should be selected for the list on account of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology." Over the years, the Conference of the Contracting Parties has adopted more specific criteria interpreting the convention text.

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The public source identifies “List of Ramsar Sites” as list of wetlands protected under the Ramsar Convention. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around List, Ramsar and Sites.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, Ramsar and Sites providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Ramsar Sites” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.