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  1. Ramsar logo

    Lake Naivasha

    • Country: 
      Kenya
    • Designation date: 
      10-04-1995
    • Site number: 
      724
    • Published since: 
      19 year(s)
    30,000 ha
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  2. The new sewage settling ponds in the dunes to the east of Walvis Bay (not part of the Ramsar site).
    Counting birds at the new sewage settling ponds.
    Flamingos and other waders at the new sewage settling ponds with the town of Walvis Bay in the background.
    Flamingos and waders in the Walvis Bay lagoon.
    The Walvis Bay salt works are within the Ramsar site.
    "Bird Paradise" sewage settling ponds (not part of the Ramsar site). These have since been drained because of an alleged mosquito problem.
    View across the Walvis Bay lagoon, looking west.

    Walvis Bay

    • Country: 
      Namibia
    • Designation date: 
      23-08-1995
    • Site number: 
      742
    • Published since: 
      29 year(s)
    12,600 ha
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  3. View across the lagoon at low tide, looking north-west.
    Looking south along the edge of the lagoon.
    Musselbeds on the mudflats, looking east.
    Musselbeds on the mudflats, looking east.
    View across the lagoon from the adjacent dunes, looking south-west.
    Remains of the northern, freshwater wetland, looking south.
    Remains of the northern, freshwater wetland, looking south.

    Sandwich Harbour

    • Country: 
      Namibia
    • Designation date: 
      23-08-1995
    • Site number: 
      743
    • Published since: 
      29 year(s)
    16,500 ha
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  4. The Orange River Mouth from the Namibian side looking south. Pelicans, cormorants and large flocks of terns are using the sandspit as a roost.
    Great White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and large flocks of terns (Sterna sp.) at the Orange River Mouth.
    View of the Orange River Mouth from Swartkop looking west. The river mouth is in the centre of the picture.
    View of the Oppenheimer bridge from Swartkop.

    Orange River Mouth

    • Country: 
      Namibia
    • Designation date: 
      23-08-1995
    • Site number: 
      744
    • Published since: 
      29 year(s)
    500 ha
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  5. Lioness on the eastern edge of Etosha Pan near Namutoni. Exceptionally high rainfall in Angola and northern Namibia resulted in the pan filling up.
    The old fort at Namutoni with Fischer's Pan in the foreground, eastern Etosha.
    Giraffe on the edge of Fischer's Pan, eastern Etosha.
    Causeway across Fischer's Pan flooded by exceptionally high water levels.
    Ephemeral waterhole formed during the rainy season.
    View of the eastern edge of Etosha Pan near Namutoni.
    View of the eastern edge of Etosha Pan near Namutoni.
    Blue Cranes on the edge of Etosha Pan near Doringdraai, eastern Etosha.

    Etosha Pan

    • Country: 
      Namibia
    • Designation date: 
      23-08-1995
    • Site number: 
      745
    • Published since: 
      29 year(s)
    600,000 ha
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  6. Traversée Parc National d'Azagny
    Mangroves
    Traversée Parc National d'Azagny

    Parc National d’Azagny

    • Country: 
      Côte d'Ivoire
    • Designation date: 
      27-02-1996
    • Site number: 
      790
    • Published since: 
      5 year(s)
    19,400 ha
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  7. White - faced ducks in the floodplains of the southern Okavango
    Peak flood near Duba, where the Okavango Panhandle first fans out
    Underwater sand bars near Xo Flats, central Okavango
    the Boteti River receiving new floods at Samedupi.

    Okavango Delta System

    • Country: 
      Botswana
    • Designation date: 
      09-12-1996
    • Site number: 
      879
    • Published since: 
      3 year(s)
    5,537,400 ha
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    Natal Drakensberg Park

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      21-01-1997
    • Site number: 
      886
    • Published since: 
      27 year(s)
    242,813 ha
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    Ndumo Game Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      21-01-1997
    • Site number: 
      887
    • Published since: 
      27 year(s)
    10,117 ha
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  10. Lac Télé
    Anhinga rufa
    Femmes naviguant sur la Likouala-aux-herbes
    Gorilla gorilla gorilla (la mère et son petit)
    Rivière Likouala-aux-herbes

    Lac Télé/Likouala-aux-herbes

    • Country: 
      Congo
    • Designation date: 
      18-06-1998
    • Site number: 
      950
    • Published since: 
      7 year(s)
    438,960 ha
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