The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Montreux Record - Questionnaire

(adopted by the Conference of the Contracting Parties in Resolution VI.1, Brisbane, 1996, accompanying the Guidelines for Operation of the Montreux Record)

Section One: Information for assessing possible inclusion of a listed site in the Montreux Record

Essential items

Name of site

Ramsar Criteria for listing the site as internationally important

Nature of the change in ecological character/potential for adverse change

Reason(s) for adverse change, or potential adverse change, in ecological character

Additional items which may be included

Date Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands submitted

Date and source of Information Sheet updates (e.g. National Reports, national wetland inventory, specific survey)

Benefits and values derived from the site

Extent to which values and benefits derived from the site have decreased or changed

Monitoring programme in place at the site, if any (technique(s), objectives, and nature of data and information gathered)

Assessment procedures in place, if any (how is the information obtained from the monitoring programme used)

Ameliorative and restoration measures in place or planned (if any) so far

List of attachments provided by the Contracting Party (if applicable)

List of attachments provided by the Ramsar Bureau (if applicable)

Section Two: Information for assessing possible removal of a listed site from the Montreux Record

Success of ameliorative, restoration or maintenance measures (describe if different from those covered in Section One of this questionnaire)

Proposed monitoring and assessment procedures (describe if different from those in Section One of this questionnaire)

Extent to which the ecological character, benefits and values of the site have been restored or maintained (provide details)

Rationale for removing the site from the Montreux Record (refer to "Guidelines for Operation of the Montreux Record", together with Section One of this questionnaire)

List of further attachments (if applicable)

For further information about the Ramsar Convention, please contact: the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel: +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail: ). Posted 28 October 1996, updated 2 April 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.