Former Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau

11/09/1998

Carmen Elena Padilla Velasco

Ramsar Intern for the Neotropics

Honduras; Ramsar Intern 1998-1999

First became involved with the Convention when, with a group of other students in her university, she won approval for a Wetlands for the Future project for coordinating a workshop, held in March 1998, to educate high school students in Ramsar values. She has an environmental engineering degree from the Universidad Católica de Honduras.

Carmen Padilla 1998

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[Carmen Padilla, right, with Anett Zellei, September 1998]

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