Ramsar Site
The Larne Lough Ramsar site (wetlands of international importance designated under the Ramsar Convention), is 395.94 hectares in area, at Latitude 54 48 54 N and Longitude 05 44 38 W. It was designated a Ramsar site on 4 March 1997. The Ramsar site boundary entirely coincides with both that of the Larne Lough Area of Special Scientific Interest and the Larne Lough Special Protection Area. The site qualified under Criterion 2 of the Ramsar Convention because it supports numbers of vulnerable and endangered Irish Red Data Book bird species. The site regularly supports nationally important numbers of breeding populations of Roseate terns and Common Tern. It also qualified under Ramsar criterion 6 due to populations occurring at levels of international importance of Light-bellied Brent Geese. Swan Island has, in the recent past, held internationally important numbers of breeding Roseate Tern.
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