Wetlands of international importance (RAMSAR)

Ramsar Area Update September 2011. The Ramsar areas are areas of the Italian territory that meet the requirements of the International Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as habitats of aquatic birds, known as the Ramsar Convention. The Ramsar Convention is an act signed in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention was ratified and implemented by Italy under Presidential Decree No 448 of 13 March 1976 and subsequent Presidential Decree No 184 of 11 February 1987. For the purposes of the Convention, wetlands are marshes and marshes, peat or reservoirs, natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with stagnant or running water, fresh, brackish, or salted, including expanses of sea water, the depth of which, at low tide, does not exceed six metres. For the purposes of the Convention, aquatic birds are ecologically dependent birds on wetlands.