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02-11-2011, 05:00 PM
The Laguna de Cabral or Rincon, a scientific reserve since 1983, has been named a Ramsar Site. The lake is located 1 km north of Cabral in Barahona province and has an area of 3,000 hectares and sits at an altitude of 141 meters. It is described as a permanent fresh to brackish lake up to 6m deep, with associated marshes and some mangroves and surrounding seasonally flooded grassy plains. The Laguna de Cabral is fed by the Rio Yaque del Sur and several smaller streams.
The forested wetland is regarded as an important area for a wide variety of resident, passing and wintering waterfowl.
According to the Ramsar website, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, or the Ramsar Convention, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
Negotiated through the 1960s by countries and non-governmental organizations that were concerned at the increasing loss and degradation of wetland habitat for migratory water birds, the treaty was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971 and came into force in 1975. It is the only global environmental treaty that deals with a particular ecosystem, and the Convention's member countries cover all geographic regions of the planet.
See: www.ramsar.org (http://www.ramsar.org)
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The forested wetland is regarded as an important area for a wide variety of resident, passing and wintering waterfowl.
According to the Ramsar website, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, or the Ramsar Convention, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
Negotiated through the 1960s by countries and non-governmental organizations that were concerned at the increasing loss and degradation of wetland habitat for migratory water birds, the treaty was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971 and came into force in 1975. It is the only global environmental treaty that deals with a particular ecosystem, and the Convention's member countries cover all geographic regions of the planet.
See: www.ramsar.org (http://www.ramsar.org)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)