The Ramsar Convention on WetlandsThe Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Ramsar COP8 - Brief report and photos: Miscellaneous
| "Wetlands:
water, life, and culture" 8th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) Valencia, Spain, 18-26 November 2002 |
Miscellaneous leftover photos from the COP and aftermath
"After 9/11, everything is different now."
Montse Riera and Valerie Higgins, Ramsar registration team, packing up what's left over. Lalli lurking.
Translation teams all departed, cubicles left for the clean-up crews.
Valencia, finally, after 10 days locked in the venue. The photographer slept for an hour on a parkbench just behind that tree in the centre.
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The newly-elected Chairperson of the Ramsar Standing Committee, Slovenia, sighting up a camera in downtown Valencia, recuperating from Ramsar COP8.
A last tapas before collapsing into several weeks of post-COP convalescence: Annette Keller, Tim Jones, Gordana Beltram, Sandra Hails.
For
further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact
the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
(tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org).
Photos by D. Peck. Posted 13 March 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
