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Ramsar Sites (DBCA-010)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 24/10/2025

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The Ramsar Sites dataset defines the official boundaries of current and proposed Western Australia Ramsar wetlands listed as Wetlands of International Importance, under the Ramsar Convention. This dataset is polygon based. The attributes provided the official Ramsar site name, Ramsar site number (i.e. Ref Code), Ramsar site status (i.e. “Existing” or “DRAFT Proposed Area”) as well as the area in hectares of the entire site and individual components. This is a publicly available dataset.

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Title Ramsar Sites (DBCA-010)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f0cb5510-9671-4189-94b4-df619307d8f9
Remote Last Updated 16/10/2025
Contact Point
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
wetlands@dbca.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 19/11/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        113.54203832400003,
        -34.54964957499993
      ],
      [
        129.00464975300008,
        -34.54964957499993
      ],
      [
        129.00464975300008,
        -14.84765508099997
      ],
      [
        113.54203832400003,
        -14.84765508099997
      ],
      [
        113.54203832400003,
        -34.54964957499993
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Ramsar Sites (DBCA-010)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/ramsar-sites