Ramsar's Handbooks on the Wise Use of Wetland (13/09/07)

Good afternoon everyone:

Handbooks on the Wise Use of Wetlands on CD-ROM.

The Ramsar Handbooks include all of the guidelines adopted by the Conference of the Contracting Parties, as well as a good deal of additional illustrative material, and this 3rd edition has been updated through the 9th meeting of the COP in November 2005. The CD-ROM includes all 17 of the Handbooks in Adobe PDF format in English, French, and Spanish versions, with a Web-based interface. The PDF texts are also available for download on the Ramsar Web site here http://www.ramsar.org/lib/lib_handbooks2006_e.htm, but the CD-ROM can be ordered free of charge by contacting Ramsar's Montse Riera (riera@ramsar.org) and specifying postal address and number wanted. We sincerely hope that the Handbooks will be useful to you as you progress toward realizing the objectives of the Convention.

The Secretariat wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Department of State for the publication of this edition of the Handbooks.

Best regards from the Ramsar Secretariat

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