Ramsar Wetlands of Australia

National dataset of Australia's Ramsar Wetlands. The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar Convention) was signed in Ramsar, Iran on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands and to conserve, through wise use and management, those that remain. The Convention encourages member countries to nominate sites containing representative, rare or unique wetlands, or that are important for conserving biological diversity, to the List of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites). Australia was one of the first countries to become a Contracting Party to the Convention and designated the world's first Ramsar site, Cobourg Peninsula, in 1974. This project was initiated by the Wetlands Section of the Australian Government Department of the Environment. Spatial data was sourced from the relevant State and Territory agencies and compiled into a single national coverage.

澳大利亚拉姆萨尔湿地国家数据集。《国际重要湿地公约》（拉姆萨尔公约，Ramsar Convention）于1971年2月2日在伊朗拉姆萨尔签署。该公约旨在遏制全球范围内的湿地流失，并通过合理利用与管理保护现存湿地资源。公约鼓励成员国将具备代表性、稀有性或独特性的湿地，或对生物多样性保护具有重要意义的湿地，纳入《国际重要湿地名录》（拉姆萨尔湿地，Ramsar sites）。澳大利亚是首批加入该公约的缔约国之一，并于1974年指定了全球首个拉姆萨尔湿地——科堡半岛（Cobourg Peninsula）。本项目由澳大利亚联邦政府环境部湿地科牵头发起。空间数据源自澳大利亚各州及领地相关机构，并整合为一套完整的国家级空间数据集。