Former Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau

Dr. Satoshi Kobayashi

Technical Officer for Asia

Seconded from Japan to the Ramsar Bureau, 1991-1996

Satoshi Kobayashi 1996

Photo 1996

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Photo 1992

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Dr Kobayashi's translation of the Ramsar book Economic Valuation of Wetlands (Kushiro International Wetland Centre, 1999)

At the Asian Wetland Symposium (left) in Penang, August 2001, with his Ramsar successors, Rebecca D'Cruz and Najam Khurshid

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» List of Wetlands of
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