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The Staff of the Ramsar Convention Secretariat

Dorothea August

Assistant Advisor for Europe

Germany; joined the Secretariat in 2004

Graduated as an Engineer in Land-use Planning, landscape conservation, nature protection and environmental development from the University of Hanover, Germany. Her dissertation subject was the conservation status of the European Mink, a species that is found in wetland habitats. Growing up in Eastern Germany, Dorothea was aware of wetland degradation in her home region, and this inspired her to strive for a career in the field of nature protection.

Dorothea (middle) on a Ramsar field trip to the Dranse, June 2005

At the Ramsar Centre in Evian, France

 March 2006 : Lucia Scodanibbio (South Africa), Shahzia Khan (Bangladesh), Adrián Ruiz-Carvajal (Mexico); Dorothea August (Germany)

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 July 2005, updated 8 March 2006, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.