4th Edition of the Ramsar Handbooks

11/07/2011

Greetings. The 4th edition of the Ramsar Handbooks for the wise use of wetlands is now available in PDF format on the Ramsar website at www.ramsar.org/handbooks4. The 20 handbooks, joined by the Ramsar Strategic Plan 2009-2015 as a 21st volume, embody all of the current guidelines and advice officially adopted by the Conference of the Contracting Parties on a wide range of wetland-related matters, including wetland policy and management, inventory and monitoring, river basin management, CEPA, Ramsar Site designation, international cooperation, and much more. The 4th edition, in English, French, and Spanish versions, supersedes all previous editions of the Handbooks – a CD-ROM edition is in preparation and will be available free of charge before too long.

Best regards, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.

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Dwight Peck
Documentation Officer
Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
Rue Mauverney 28
1196 Gland, Switzerland
www.ramsar.org
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Sandra HAILS
CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
hails@ramsar.org
Tel: +41 22 9990176
Fax: +41 22 9990169
www.ramsar.org/CEPA-Programme/

The Convention today

Number of » Contracting Parties: 167 Sites designated for the
» List of Wetlands of
International Importance: 2,122 Total surface area of designated sites (hectares): 205,366,160

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