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Zaranik – Lake Bardawil, Egypt

Tunis Lake, Tunisia

Tamentit and Sid Ahmed Timmi oases, Algeria

Škocjanske jame, Slovenia

Sečovlje soline, Slovenia

Santo André Lagoon, Portugal

Prespa Lakes, Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Greece

Orbetello Lagoon, Italy

Neretva Delta, Croatia

Narta Lagoon, Albania

Kus (Manyas) Gölü, Turkey

Larnaka Salt Lakes, Cyprus

Kune-Vain Lagoon, Albania

Kizoren Obrugu, Turkey

The Zaranik protected area is located at the eastern end of Lake Bardawil, on the Sinai’s Mediterranean coast and forms part of the lake. The wetland is the least...

Tunis Lake forms the southern part of the Gulf of Tunis and was formed in the 11th century AD. Although the lake is a separate basin due to silting...

Cultural landscapes Tamentit and Sid Ahmed Timmi are the largest of a series of oases located 12 km north of the main town in Adrar province. They are bordered...

Škocjanske jame, or the Škocjan Caves, are situated in the south-western part of Slovenia in the region called Kras or Karst after the stone formations that typify its landscape....

Scientific research and education The complex ecosystems of the Sidi Boughaba wetlands are facing a number of threats and interventions; their conservation is not always easy. Environmental education acts...

Cultural landscape The site is situated on the Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Dragonja River in the southernmost stretch of Piran Bay. The Sečovlje saltpans are among...

Lagoa de Santo André is situated on the southwest coast of Iberia, south of Lisbon and the Sado River. Highly significant from a hydrological point of view, its characteristic...

Cultural landscapes Prespa is a complex of two lakes shared between Greece, Albania and FYR of Macedonia. Encircled by a ring of tall mountains, the lakes form an iconic...

Orbetello Lagoon is situated on the Tyrrhenian coast, 20 km north of Lago di Burano. This site includes sandy beaches, a brackish lagoon, freshwater ponds, small areas of woodland,...

Cultural landscapes The Neretva Delta is the estuary of the Neretva River, the longest river that empties into the Adriatic. The majority of the Neretva flows through Bosnia and...

Narta Lagoon is situated on the south-eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and stretches over 10,000 ha. The site consists of salinas, sand dunes, salty land and cultivated land....

Kus (Manyas) Lake is located on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara between the Uluabat and Biga peninsulas. The lake supports a wide range of biodiversity: situated...

The Larnaka Salt Lakes, an area of 1761 hectares, are a unique Mediterranean landscape fashioned over thousands of years through the co-existence of humans and nature. It is a...

Kune-Vain Lagoon, also known as the Drin Delta, is situated in the administrative district of Lezha on the northern Albanian coast. It consists of the coastal lagoons of Kune,...

Kizoren Obrugu is situated in the centre of the Central Anatolian steppes, 65 km northeast of the city of Konya. In Turkish, the word obruk means a vertical depression...

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