Key Documents of the Ramsar Convention

Applications of the Ramsar Advisory Mission

Special attention is given to assisting member States in the management and conservation of listed sites whose ecological character is threatened. This is carried out through the Ramsar Advisory Mission, a technical assistance mechanism formally adopted by Recommendation 4.7 of the 1990 Conference of the Parties. (The Ramsar Advisory Mission mechanism was formerly known as the Monitoring Procedure and the Management Guidance Procedure.)  The main objective of this mechanism is to provide assistance to developed and developing countries alike in solving the problems or threats that make inclusion in the Montreux Record necessary. [Texts are in English unless marked by F, S.]

For more information about the Ramsar Advisory Mission, 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 ). Many of the early mission reports have been scanned from hardcopy by Prof Ron Mitchell, then of Stanford University, USA. First posted 26 November 1996, updated 29 November 2006, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.