The Transboundary Wetlands Database provides information for 300 wetlands located in in more than 80 international river basins. The wetlands included are primarily those recognized as Wetlands of International Importance under the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, including:
· 22 Transboundary Ramsar Sites which encompass 65 individual Ramsar Sites designated by 26 countries
· 210 individual Ramsar sites that extend onto the territory of one or more other countries, designated by 84 countries
· 12 wetlands identified as transboundary by Griffin and Ali (2012)
· 9 Ramsar sites identified as transboundary through spatial analysis
· 4 non-Ramsar transboundary wetlands identified through Google search
The downloadable excel file includes information on Ramsar designation, country and region location, situatedness within international river basins, and presence of a river basin organization (RBO).
For more information about the Transboundary Wetlands Database, please see the accompanying publication from Rosenblum and Schmeier (2022).
For more information about transboundary wetlands, please see the following references:
Griffin, P.J. and Ali, S. (2012). Wetland diplomacy: transboundary conservation and Ramsar. Our World. United Nations University. Peace and Security: Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Governance, Peacebuilding.
Lee, J. (2015). The governance of wetland ecosystems and the promotion of transboundary water cooperation – opportunities presented by the Ramsar Convention. Water International, 40(1): 33-47.
Ramsar Convention. (2018). Global Wetland Outlook: State of the World’s Wetlands and their Services to People. Gland, Switzerland: Ramsar Convention Secretariat.
Rosenblum, Z.H. & Schmeier, S. (2022). Global wetland governance: introducing the Transboundary Wetlands Database. Water, 14(19):3077.
Rosenblum, Z.H. & Schmeier, S. (2023). Exploring cooperation over transboundary wetlands: the Hamoun Wetlands, Okavango Delta, and Wadden Sea. Water International, 48(4).
Rosenblum, Z.H. & Wolf, A.T. (2023). Implications of Chile v. Bolivia for transboundary wetlands. Wyoming Law Review, 23(2).