Ramsar Sites

A little bird told me........

What's a Ramsar site?
Name after a place in Iran, is an international convention on wetlands which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. It was first established in 1971 and came into force in 1975.

Malaysia presently has 5 Ramsar sites:
1) Pulau Kukup State Park - Johore
2) Sungai Pulai Forest Reserve - Johore
3) Tanjung Piai State Park - Johore
4) Tasek Bera - Pahang
5) Kuching wetlands National Park - Sarawak

Benefits of being listed as a Ramsar site:
a) funding for management activities like forest management plan prepartion
b) enhanced protection
c) bio-diversity assessments
d) increased access to expertise

Sabah is proposing to conserve and permanently protect some 78,000ha of mangroves and forest reserve in the Lower Kinabatangan-Segama region, 250km from Kota Kinabalu ., which is 3 times the size of Kuala Lumpur.
Once approved, Sabah would have the largest Ramsar site in Malaysia.
With the listing, it would further raise the profile of Sabah's conservation efforts internationally and thereby create a positive effect on the state's growing nature-based tourism industry.

ref: The star-19Jul 2008

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