page_title: Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands
section_title: Ramsar listing
hierarchical_section_title: Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands / History / Ramsar listing
caption_attribution_description: Calidris acuminata（尖尾鷸）, Changhua County, Taiwan, 2007.
context_page_description: The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands are a group of two principally freshwater swamps, totalling 261 hectares, lying in the suburbs of Aspendale, Edithvale, Chelsea Heights, and Seaford in south-eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Together they form the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Ramsar Site. With the nearby Eastern Treatment Plant, they form the Carrum Wetlands Important Bird Area.
context_section_description: The wetlands were listed on 29 August 2001 under the Ramsar Convention, as Ramsar site 1096, Australia's 11th site, in recognition of their international importance, and specifically because they:
  are the last remaining examples of the Carrum Carrum Swamp, containing a variety of permanent and seasonal, freshwater and saline wetlands,
  support populations of the Australasian bittern, considered to be of state significance and threatened in Victoria, and
  support more than 1% of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway population of sharp-tailed sandpipers (or over 2000 birds) in up to one year in three.
  They are also considered to be of exceptional significance as examples of cost-effective management of wetlands in an urban setting to provide conservation benefits, manage storm water, and encourage environmental education and research.
caption: Sharp-tailed sandpiper
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