Morocco has 84 wetlands, including more than twenty natural inland lakes, around thirty dams, four large coastal lakes and a number of river mouths.

Thanks to its Mediterranean climate with a humid winter, Morocco's wetlands include a highly productive environment, it ensures the sustenance of waterbirds throughout the year, and due to its importance, 38 of them are included on the “Ramsar List” which total nearly 320,000 ha.

These wetlands form ecosystems rich in various types of plants and animals of the utmost importance for humans socially, economically, culturally, scientifically, educationally and recreationally (700 species of plants and 1400 species of vertebrates).

List of Ramsar wetlands in Morocco: