List of Ramsar areas in Switzerland

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Ramsar sites are closed after the 1971 Ramsar Convention protected wetlands of international importance, according to the intention of the international international treaty in particular as a habitat for water and wading birds .

Basics

The agreement, named after the place where the contract was concluded, the Iranian city of Ramsar , is one of the oldest international agreements on environmental protection . The Swiss Confederation ratified the agreement on January 16, 1976 (as the 10th state), and the convention including the amendments of the Extraordinary Conference of the Contracting Parties in Regina, Canada, from 1987 ( Regina Amendments , came into force 1 May 1994).

A declaration as a Ramsar area is not a protection category in the actual sense, that is, it does not represent any concrete legal handling, but is a «predicate (seal of quality)», the protection itself is on a voluntary basis by the signatory states.

The seat of the International Ramsar Secretariat for monitoring the implementation of the Convention and its further development is Gland VD on Lake Geneva. Every three years, reports on the status of wetland protection are presented at conferences of the contracting states.

List of Ramsar areas

Name of the area	Canton	location	Size (ha)	Height ( m above sea level )	Expulsion date
Fanel et Chablais de Cudrefin	Bern , Neuchâtel , Vaud	46 ° 59 '  N , 007 ° 03'  E	1,155	430-434	Jan. 16, 1976
Bolle di Magadino	Ticino	46 ° 09 '  N , 008 ° 52'  E	663	192-202	Feb. 18, 1982
Les Grangettes	Vaud	46 ° 23 '  N , 006 ° 54'  E	330	373	0Nov 9, 1990
South shore of Lake Neuchâtel	Freiburg , Vaud	46 ° 50 '  N , 006 ° 50'  E	1,705	430-530	0Nov 9, 1990
Le Rhone genevois -Vallons de l ' Allondon et de La Laire	Geneva	46 ° 12 '  N , 006 ° 09'  E	1.929	335-372	0Nov 9, 1990
Klingnau reservoir	Aargau	47 ° 35 '  N , 008 ° 14'  E	364	316-321	0Nov 9, 1990
Niederried reservoir	Bern	46 ° 59 '  N , 007 ° 15'  E	297	461-580	0Nov 9, 1990
Kaltbrunner Riet	St. Gallen	47 ° 12 '  N , 008 ° 59'  E	157	407-409	0Nov 9, 1990
Laubersmad - Salwidili	Lucerne	46 ° 58 '  N , 007 ° 59'  E	1,376	1060-1908	0Feb 2, 2005
Rhone glacier foreland	Valais	46 ° 34 '  N , 008 ° 22'  E	317	1757-2485	0Feb 2, 2005
Roseg glacier	Grisons	46 ° 25 '  N , 009 ° 52'  E	383	1994-2801	0Feb 2, 2005

Status: 2/2008, source: ramsar.org

Web links

• The Annotated Ramsar List: Switzerland , ramsar.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ The text of the Ramsar Convention and other key original documents. ramsar.org, accessed in 2010 (current text with amendments, original text, status of ratifications, etc.). 
2. ^ Austrian Ramsar areas , Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

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