World Wetlands Day 2004 - early-start announcement

World Wetlands Day preparations under way. World Wetlands Day takes place on 2 February every year, and traditionally the Ramsar Bureau provides materials for the use of everyone who will be organizing WWD activities of their own. It’s time now to let our readers know about our preparations for World Wetlands Day 2004 in plenty of time for their own planning. This year the Bureau has developed a theme -- From the Mountains to the Sea - Wetlands at Work for Us -- that will allow people to focus on their own wetlands and consider how these wetlands work for their benefit both at national and local levels, and to consider too how to manage their wetlands so that they continue to deliver these benefits. Here is a brief description of the materials now being got ready for distribution in mid-October [français et/y español]. It's worth mentioning that, as last year, all of the materials being offered free of charge for WWD activities will also be made available in Quark XPress design format, so that those with the will and the means to do so can adapt the materials to their own languages, their own local circumstances, and larger print-runs if they wish (as in Trinidad-and-Tobago's T-shirt, left). Here is a page of illustrations of WWD2003 materials that have been adapted by our collaborators in several countries to their own specificities [français et/y español]. (It should be noted that the Ramsar Bureau, having provided the original designs, is unfortunately not able to provide funding for local adaptations.) [03/07/03]