Tubli Bay

The mangroves thrived on the run-off of water of freshwater springs after it passed through farms into the bay.

The bay has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant passage or wintering populations of waders and gulls, including grey, Kentish and Siberian sand plovers, and broad-billed sandpipers, dunlins and slender-billed gulls.

Other wintering species include little egrets, common ringed plovers, little stints, ruddy turnstones, and Pallas's and black-headed gulls.

[2] Tubli Bay has suffered from illegal land reclamation, environmental pollution and decreasing freshwater supply from springs.

In 1997, Tubli Bay was added to the list of Ramsar wetlands of international importance.