Signed on February 2, 1971, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Habitat for Waterfowl, known as the “Ramsar Convention” (“Convention”), recognizes that wetlands are sources of biodiversity and a resource of great value economic, cultural and recreational, whose loss is considered irreparable. The Convention establishes the need for their protection, mainly due to their ecological functions as regulators of water regimes and as habitats for characteristic flora and fauna, especially waterfowl, and for the well-being of human populations.
Wetlands or wetlands are “ecosystems at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic environments, continental or coastal, natural or artificial, permanently or periodically flooded or with waterlogged soils. The waters can be fresh, brackish or salty, with plant and animal communities adapted to their water dynamics” ” (Recommendation of the National Wetland Committee – CNZU n 07, of June 11, 2015 ), on which waterfowl depend ecologically.
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