ILNA | Maryam Hashemi: Anzali Lagoon, located in Gilan province in northern Iran, is one of the most interesting and largest natural habitats in the country. With an area of about 20,000 hectares, the lagoon receives many birds coming to Iran from neighbouring countries each year. Anzali lagoon is not comparable with any other Iranian wetland ...

Tasnim- Anzali lagoon, which has been registered in Ramsar International Convention, is considered as an important tourist attraction and destination for the birdwatchers. Anzali lagoon is located in Gilan Province, north of Iran. Having great weather and being the greenest province in Iran, Gilan attracts a huge number of tourists every year. This ...

IRNA Anzali Lotus flowers in Anzali Lagoon seen in this August 13 photo are one of the alluring tourist attractions of this northern Iranian port in Gilan Province. The aquatic plant grows in Anzali Lagoon which lies in the Caspian Sea near Bandar-e Anzali. The lagoon divides Bandar-e Anzali into two parts, and is home to both the Selke Wildlife ...

The ecologically-rich Anzali Wetland in Gilan Province is now threatened by water hyacinth. The wetland had earlier been besieged by water ferns native to the tropical regions of the Americas, East Asia and Australia and extremely invasive outside its natural habitat. Water hyacinth, native to the Amazon basin, has begun growing in the wetlands ...

Anzali Lagoon is now on the Ramsar Environmental Blacklist due to the increase in the amount of industrial, agricultural and household waste present in the body of water, says the Gilan Department of the Environment. Mohammadreza Borji, the head of the Gilan DOE, told ISNA: Even if we moved this very day to reduce environmental pollutants in Gilan,...