The Ramsar Convention announces the "Ansab Lakes" as the second site in the Sultanate

Within the framework of the efforts of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs to protect wetlands of all kinds in the Sultanate and in coordination with the Ramsar agreement for wetlands of international importance by announcing the monuments of the monuments as the second site of Ramsar in the Sultanate on March 22, 2020 AD, where the lake lakes of industrial wetlands are classified according to the classification of the Ramsar Land Agreement Al Rutba, with an area of ​​54 hectares, is site No. 2406 of the declared sites of the agreement, which is a wastewater treatment facility connected to a series of surrounding water pools, where this process provides quantities of treated water for reuse in irrigation fields in addition to creating an environmental system that contributed to providing an appropriate environment Birds, whether settlement or migratory, where more than 305 species of birds have been detected, in addition to the contribution of this lake to supporting the tourism sector, where it is considered one of the tourist fronts for amateur watching and bird watching.
On this announcement, Badr bin Saif Al Busaidi, a nature reserve specialist, said that the Sultanate joined this agreement according to Royal Decree No. (64/2012) issued on November 25, 2012, where the accreditation for the Sultanate’s accession to the agreement came in May 2013, by announcing One primary site, which is the Qurum Natural Reserve, which is located in the heart of the Governorate of Muscat, with a total area of ​​up to 80 hectares of natural forest of Crimean trees of the type (Avicennia Marina), and it is the only type that exists that can adapt to the climate of the Omani environment, and more than 200 have been monitored A type of bird, 40 species of crustaceans, and 50 species of mollusks, in addition to many small fish, as the reserve is a nursery for commercial fish reproduction of international economic nutritional value. The site's declaration as a Ramsar site is of international importance, which qualifies it to be an important destination for eco-tourism. Which are of great importance in maintaining the ecological balance, as well as the role of natural protection from tropical storms and hurricanes.
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On the goals of the Ramsar Agreement, Al-Busaidi added: The agreement aims to encourage the conservation and rational use of wetlands by means of measures taken at the national level and through international cooperation to reach sustainable development in all the world. Many wetlands are under the auspices of this agreement, which are swamps and marshes. , Lakes, valleys, oases, estuaries, delta regions, tidal lines, marshes, mangroves, coral reefs, aflajs and waterfalls, in addition to artificial wet areas such as fish ponds, dams and sewage areas.
Al-Busaidi added: Wetlands provide basic environmental services, which are a rate of the hydrological system, and a source of biological diversity at all levels within species (the genetic level and the level of the ecosystem) and wet areas are windows open to interactions that occur between cultural diversity and biological diversity It is considered an economic and scientific source, and its diminishing or gradual disappearance constitutes a blatant attack on the environment, the damage of which is sometimes not recoverable to normal. The Sultanate has given its own importance as most of the wetland sites are classified as natural reserve sites, where they were Announcement of nine bridges in Dhofar Governorate, in addition to the Qurum Nature Reserve Reserve
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