The Ramsar Photo Gallery

Photo essay: Some human uses of wetlands (file 1)

New pix coming, from time to time, until this file has been filled up.

Harvesting reeds for construction and other uses (Photo: WWF)

Placing mudskipper traps, Hong Kong (Photo: WWF/D.S. Melville)

Woman collecting reeds, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala (Photo: WWF/Anne La Bastille)

Building a 9-km fence round a replanted mangrove, Samut Songkram, Thailand (Photo: WWF)

WWF's donated "Banana Boat", used for research, anti-poaching patrols, ecotourism, Bangweulu, Zambia (Photo: WWF/François d'Elbée)

Boat characteristic of Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable freshwater lake (3810m), shared between Bolivia and Peru (Photo: Marlowe Tyson Peck, 2000)

Foofing around on the Fly River, Papua New Guinea (Photo: Roger Jaensch)

Traditional fish traps made out of reeds, Menderes Delta, Turkey. (Photo: WWF/Canon, Michel Gunther)

Go to Human Uses File 2

Note: Many of these photos were lent to the Ramsar Bureau free of charge by the PhotoLibrary of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International) for use in various Ramsar publications. It would not be a good idea to reproduce them for other uses without checking with the WWF/Canon PhotoLibrary first.

For further information about the 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). Posted 8 June 2000, updated 23 January 2001, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.