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Ramsar sites

Summary


Under the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, 1971), each Contracting Party undertakes to designate at least one wetland site for inclusion in the List of Wetlands of International Importance (the “Ramsar List”). There are over 2,000 “Ramsar Sites” on the territories of over 160 Ramsar Contracting Parties across the world.


For more information on the Convention, please visit the Ramsar website http://www.ramsar.org.


The Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS) provides online information on wetlands that have been designated as internationally important.


All Site information is provided by the Contracting Parties to the Convention and is managed by the Ramsar Secretariat. Responsibility for the accuracy of the data lies with the Administrative Authority of the Party in which the Ramsar Site is located.


The Ramsar Secretariat provides open access to the RSIS and its data, to promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands. If you are interested in an overview of the Ramsar Sites network, or are looking for information on a specific Site, please visit the Explore Sites page.


You will find:


a searchable database of Ramsar Sites, which holds information on the wetland types, ecology, land uses, threats, hydrological values of each Site as well as spatial information

downloadable copies of Ramsar Information Sheets (RISs) for each site which have been provided by the Contracting Parties , including maps and supplementary information, Site summaries, and exportable data sets; and

digital (GIS) boundaries of Sites, where available.


For any further questions, comments or other inquiries about the RSIS, please contact the Ramsar Secretariat at ramsar@ramsar.org. ramsar@ramsar.org For any further questions, comments or other inquiries about the RSIS, please contact the Ramsar Secretariat at ramsar@ramsar.org.


Description


This dataset displays Ramsar site polygon areas downloaded from https://rsis.ramsar.org/ in 17.2.2016. The dataset was subsetted by selecting only the sites that are withing Baltic Sea drainage area and projected to ETRS89LAEA by the HELCOM Secretariat.

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Date (Creation)
2016-02-17
Unique resource identifier
https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/91bfbaea-c586-4178-8c2d-16fbba5aea8b
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Bio-geographical regions

GEMET

  • ocean

Keywords
  • MADS

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Use constraints: Materials presented on this website, particularly maps and territorial information, are as-is and as-available based on available data and do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Data can be used freely given that the source (Ramsar) is cited

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Access constraints: No limitations on public access.
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
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Begin date
2016-02-17
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
Download dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Open in Map Viewer ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

This dataset displays Ramsar site polygon areas downloaded from https://rsis.ramsar.org/ in 17.2.2016. The dataset was subsetted by selecting only the sites that are withing Baltic Sea drainage area and projected to ETRS89LAEA by the HELCOM Secretariat.

File identifier
91bfbaea-c586-4178-8c2d-16fbba5aea8b XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-09-09T12:00:52
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Bio-geographical regions

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