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Ramsar/Swiss side event at the CBD's COP7 -- Photos of the event

Convention on Biological Diversity
Conference of the Parties, 7th meeting
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Water as Ramsar's new focus

"Wetlands, Rivers & Water: the Developing Ramsar Convention"

Date: Friday, 13 February 2004
Time: 13h15 - 14h45

Peter Bridgewater: "The Ramsar Convention, a convention from the past – for the future"

Gordana Beltram: "The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, a key tool for conservation and use of wetlands"

His Excellency Beat Nobs (Swiss Federal Agency for the Environment, Forest and Landscape): "The Ramsar Convention, the major global water convention"

Tomme Young (IUCN Environment Law Center): "Legal perspectives on broadening the Ramsar Convention"

Faisal Parish (Global Environment Center – Malaysia): "The River Basin Initiative: a broader scale in action"

The Chair of the Ramsar Standing Committee on an elephant

Media release

For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 17 February 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.