HC Deb 25 November 1987 vol 123 c232W
Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those areas that have been listed under the Ramsar convention.

Mr. Moynihan

The United Kingdom Government have listed 32 sites under the Ramsar convention, covering nearly 100,000 hectares, as follows:

  • Bridgwater Bay: Somerset
  • Bure Marshes: Norfolk
  • Cors Fochno and Dyfi: Dyfed, Gwyncdd, Powys
  • Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere: Norfolk
  • Lindisfarne: Northumberland
  • Loch Duidibeg, Loch a'Machair: and Loch Stilligary: Western Isles
  • Loch Leven: Tayside
  • Loch Lomond: Strathclyde, Central
  • Loch Neagh and Lough Beg: Antrim, Londonderry,Tyrone, Armagh Down
  • Minsmere—Walberswick: Suffolk
  • North Norfolk Coast: Norfolk
  • Ouse Washes: Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Rannoch Moor: Tayside
  • Abberton Reservoir: Essex
  • Cairngorm Lochs: Grampian Highland
  • Claish Moss: Highland
  • Loch Lintrathen: Tayside
  • Rostherne Mere: Cheshire
  • Silver Flowe: Dumfries and Galloway
  • Chesil Beach and the Fleet: Dorset
  • The Dee Estuary: Merseyside, Cheshire, Clwyd
  • Derwent Ings: North Yorkshire, Humberside
  • Holburn Moss: Northumberland
  • Irthinghead Mires: Cumbria, Northumberland
  • The Swale: Kent
  • Alt Estuary: Merseyside
  • Leighton Moss: Lancashire
  • Martin Mere: Lancashire
  • Loch Eye: Highland
  • Loch Skene: Grampian
  • Rockliffe Marshes: Cumbria
  • Chichester and Langstone Harbours: West Sussex, Hampshire