The Davis Strait - DCE - Nationalt Center for Miljø og Energi

Figure 6.1.1. Areas within or
near the assessment area protected
according the Greenland
Nature Protection Law or designated
as Important Bird Areas
(IBAs) or Ramsar sites.
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6 Protected areas and threatened species
David Boertmann & Daniel Clausen(AU)
6.1 International nature protection conventions
According to the Convention on Wetlands (the Ramsar Convention,
http://www.ramsar.org), Greenland has designated eleven areas to be included
in the Ramsar list of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar
sites). These areas are to be conserved as wetlands and should be incorporated
in the national conservation legislation; however, only one of the
Greenland Ramsar sites has so far been protected legally. A single Ramsar
site is situated within the assessment area, and that is the fjord Ikkattok and
adjacent archipelagoes near Paamiut (Egevang & Boertmann 2001) - see fig.
6.1.1.
66°N
64°N
62°N
60°W
60°W
Protected areas
Ramsar Area
Nature Protection Area
Important Bird Area
0 75 150 Km
60°N
55°W
55°W
50°W
50°W
68°N
66°N
64°N
62°N