The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Photos from the 7th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties -- Candid shots

"People and Wetlands: The Vital Link"
7^th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
San José, Costa Rica, 10-18 May 1999

Candid shots from the COP

Odds and ends from the bottom of the bin

Dr Miguel Ángel Rodríguez E., President of the Republic of Costa Rica

Dr Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser, Director General of IUCN

Néstor Windevoxhel, on loan to the Ramsar Bureau for the COP

Larry Mason, formerly US Fish and Wildlife Service, representing the Conservation Treaty Support Fund

Scott Frazier, Wetlands International (left); Andras Böhm, Hungary (2nd from right) and Gordana Beltram, Slovenia (right)

Annette Keller Pavlic, Néstor Windevoxhel, and Raquel Sigüenza de Micheo, of the secretariat

Anada Tiéga with his favorite computer

Gerard Boere, the Netherlands; John O'Sullvan and Dave Pritchard, BirdLife International

The people who made it happen -- planning, organization, and logistics on the Costa Rica side: Marco A. Solano and Eltima Morales

Maryse Mahy

John O'Sullivan (BirdLife International) and Valerie Higgins (Ramsar Bureau) celebrating the end of the COP

Anada Tiéga, Dwight Peck, and Bill Phillips of the Ramsar Bureau

Fun at the Registration Desk, with a hurricane in progress outside and water coming in all round the windows

The team from MKI Travel:   Gerri-Lynn Sendyk, Erika Keller, and Astrid Ratzel

Past and present Ramsar Interns: Raquel Sigüenza, Anett Zellei, and Maryse Mahy

Carmen Padilla Velasco and Nestor Windevoxhel of the Bureau

Members of the Registration Team, Valerie Higgins and Montse Riera, with just some of the Registration Fees

Bill Phillips and Annette Keller Pavlic, Ramsar Bureau

Small Crowd of Ministers: Elizabeth Odio Benito, Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, and Dominique Voynet, Minister of Physical Planning and the Environment, France

The free coffee machine, and friends

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-- photos by Tim Jones, Dwight Peck, and Annette Keller

Capsule Portraits by Andrei Henry, Earth Negotiations Bulletin

Anada Tiéga, Ramsar Bureau	Tim Jones, Ramsar Bureau	Geoff Howard, IUCN
Nestor Windevoxhel, representing the Ramsar Bureau	Rebecca D'Cruz, Ramsar Bureau	Deborah Moore, World Commission on Dams
Bill Phillips, Ramsar Bureau	Herb Raffaele, USA	Veit Koester (Denmark), session chair, and Delmar Blasco, Ramsar SG
Clare Shine, legal expert	Clayton Rubec, Canada	David Stroud, United Kingdom
Andrea Bagri, IUCN	Max Finlayson, Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist, Australia	Nick Davidson, Wetlands International
Dave Pritchard (right), BirdLife International		Jamie Pittock, WWF Australia

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 19999 0170, fax +41 22 99 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted 14 August 1999, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.