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Recommendations of the 3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties

The 3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
Regina, Canada
27 May - 5 June 1987

Recommendations of the 3rd Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties

Only English and French texts are official; Spanish language versions were supplied in advance of COP5 (Kushiro, Japan, 1993) and were not officially adopted by COP3.

Reference	Document Title
Recommendation 3.1	Criteria for identifying wetlands of international importance and guidelines on their use	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.2	Need for further studies of flyways	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.3	Wise use of wetlands	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.4	Responsibility of development agencies toward wetlands	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.5	Tasks of the Bureau in respect to development agencies	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.6	Further Contracting Parties in Africa	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.7	Further Contracting Parties in Central America, the Caribbean and South America	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.8	Conservation of Azraq Ramsar site	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.9	Change in ecological character of Ramsar sites	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.10	Further Contracting Parties in Asia and the Pacific	PDF	Word
Recommendation 3.11	Recommendation of Thanks [to the Canadians]	PDF	Word

The Convention today

Number of » Contracting Parties: 167 Sites designated for the
» List of Wetlands of
International Importance: 2,127 Total surface area of designated sites (hectares): 205,448,714

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