Mudflats
WHS with mudflats or tidal flats in their core zones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudflat
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Aldabra Atoll | "mangrove mudflats with minimal human impact" (OUV) | |
Banc d'Arguin | "coastal areas covered with marshes and mudflats" (AB ev) | |
Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats | "one of the world’s largest and most productive tidal flat ecosystems" (OUV) | |
Gulf of California | "ranging from a variety of pelagic and benthic environments to coral reefs, as well as mudflats, coastal wetlands and various types of desert and deciduous forest." (OUV) | |
Kakadu National Park | "including extensive areas of savanna woodlands, open forest, floodplains, mangroves, tidal mudflats" (OUV) | |
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China | "The property’s tidal flats are of exceptional importance for the conservation of the world’s migratory birds" (OUV) | |
Mont-Saint-Michel | ||
Peninsula Valdes | "a diverse mosaic of wetlands, mudflats, dunes and cliffs" (OUV) | |
The Sundarbans | "mud flats, and tidal flats are also included in the property" (integrity statement) | |
The Sundarbans | "The Sunderban mudflats are found at the estuary and on the deltaic islands where low velocity of river and tidal current occurs" (wiki) | |
Wadden Sea | "the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world" (OUV) |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Mudflats?
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