Wetlands WMS

Wetlands are the wet nature reserves in the Netherlands. The Wetland treaty was signed at Ramsar in Iran on February 2, 1971. The Netherlands was one of the 16 countries that signed the treaty. In 1980, the Netherlands ratified the Convention. “Wetlands” or “wet land” is officially defined according to the Ramsar Convention as: ‘Water rich areas, marshes, fens, peat or peat areas, natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water stationary or running, fresh, brackish or salt, including seawater, the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres’. This includes the coastal and coastal areas adjacent to wetlands and islands or seawater areas situated within these areas. There are 44 wetlands in the Netherlands.