29th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photos

Photos of the Gala Dinner

Hôtel des Alpes, Nyon, Switzerland, 27 February 2003

Trevor Swerdfager (Canada), Akiho Shibata (Japan), Gordana Beltram (Slovenia)

Nick Davidson (Ramsar), Olivier Biber (Switzerland), Henk Eggink (The Netherlands)

Spyros Kouvelis (MedWet), Valerie Higgins (Ramsar)

Doug Taylor (Wetlands International), Anada Tiéga (Ramsar)	Lei Guangchun (Ramsar), Trevor Swerdfager (Canada)

Margartia Astrálaga (Ramsar), Herb Raffaele (USA), Sian Kathryn Owen (WWF International)

Mohamed Ankouz (Morocco), Mireille Katz (Ramsar), Javad Amin Mansour (Iran)

Javad Amin Mansour (Iran), Jia Ma and Nassima Aghanim (Ramsar)

Esti Andayani (Indonesia), Makoto Komoda (Japan), Virgil Munteanu (Romania)	Spyros Kouvelis and Valerie Higgins

Tobias Salathé (Ramsar), Louise Vall (UK), Meinrad Küttel (Switzerland)

Clockwise from Elizabeth Moore (UK): Tobias Salathé, Louise Vall, Meinrad Küttel, Stephen Virc (Canada), Gerhard Sigmund (Austria), Julio Montes de Oca (Ramsar)

Center: Dave Pritchard (BirdLife International), Montserrat Riera and Carlos Villalba (Ramsar)

Miguel Aymerich Huyghues (Spain), Annette Keller (Ramsar), Victoria Lichtschein (Argentina)	Delmar Blasco (Ramsar), Carmen Revenga (World Resources Institute), Dave Pritchard (BirdLife), Montse Riera (Ramsar)

Stephen Virc (Canada), Gerhard Sigmund (Austria), Julio Montes de Oca (Ramsar), Elizabeth Moore (UK)

Montse Riera, Carlos Villalba, Miguel Aymerich Huyghues	Stephen Virc, Gerhard Sigmund, Julio Montes, Elizabeth Moore

Julio, Elizabeth, Tobias, Louise

Victoria Lichtschein (Argentina), Delmar Blasco (Ramsar), Carmen Revenga (WRI), Dave Pritchard (BirdLife)

Stephen Virc, Gerhard Sigmund	Nick Davidson, Olivier Biber

Herb Raffaele (USA), Sian Kathryn Owen (WWF)	Jean-Yves Pirot (IUCN), Sandra Hails (Ramsar)

The Secretary General prepares to make a speech.

The Secretary General, indeed, makes a speech.

-- Photographs by Paulette Kennedy, Ramsar