The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

The Ramsar Photo Gallery

A quick index to some of the larger collections of jpegs on this Web site.

The Secretariat always welcomes photographs of Ramsar sites and Ramsar site personnel, clearly labeled as to subject and photographer. Not all of them will end up here on this page, but, in general, the more the better.

Wetland photos from the Ramsar Web site front page, beginning 8 June 2000, continuing

Photos of Wetlands of International Importance, beginning 19 January 2001, continuing

Ramsar Events (Secretariat behavioral excesses, Standing Committee indiscretions, solemn signing of documents, etc.) [reverse chronological order]

73 photos of the 36th meeting of the Standing Committee, February 2008

46 photos of the 14th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP), January-February 2008

17 photos of the Asian Regional Meeting, Bangkok, January 2008

102 photos of the 13th meeting of the STRP and the dinner, June 2006

25 photos of Ramsar staff viewing wetlands at the Dranse and Pays de Gavot, France, June 2005

21 photos of Annette Keller's Ramsar retirement party, August 2004

40 photos of the STRP midterm workshops, Wageningen, July 2004

22 photos of World Environment Day at Ramsar/IUCN HQ, June 2004

7 photos of a Ramsar hike to Lac de Tanay, May 2004

110 photos of the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee, January 2004

36 photos of Bureau's faux-African farewell to Anada Tiéga, August 2003

29 photos of Bureau's seafood farewell to Delmar Blasco, July 2003

8 photos of IUCN's farewell to Delmar Blasco, July 2003

24 photos of Switzerland's farewell to Delmar Blasco, July 2003

33 photos of WWF's wine-tasting farewell to Blasco and Tiéga, July 2003

32 photos of the Bureau's edifying visit to Bassin du Drugeon, France, June 2003

66 photos of the 11th meeting of the STRP, April 2003

92 photos of the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee, February 2003

26 photos of the Bureau relaxing after COP8, January 2003

229 photos of the COP8, Valencia, Spain, November 2002

31 photos of the Evian Ramsar Centre inauguration, October 2002

13 photos of the Bureau dining Swiss big-time, June 2002

30 photos of the Standing Committee's Subgroup meetings, May 2002

20 photos of the Bureau's study tour to 2 Ramsar sites on Lac de Neuchâtel, May 2002

46 photos of the 26 meeting of the Standing Committee, December 2001

New premises of Ramsar's MedWet Coordination Unit, Athens, Greece, November 2001

14 photos of the Bureau's British evening and Highlands haggis hunt, October 2001

40 photos of the 10th STRP meeting, June 2001

23 photos of the Ramsar Bureau's study tour to the Camargue, France, June 2001

12 photos of the Bureau's Catalan evening, 28 April 2001

8 photos of International Women's Day at the Bureau, 8 March 2001

14 photos of Uganda's welcome to the Secretary General, World Wetlands Day 2001

7 photos of Ramsar eating Big Chocolate, Geneva Escalade rituals, December 2000

3 photos: party for Ramsar European interns, Switzerland, November 2000

31 photos: Standing Committee 25, Switzerland, October 2000

6 photos: Horrible shenanigans amongst otherwise-respected Bureau staff for Hallowe'en 2000

16 photos of Ramsar and Ramsarian friends at the Millennium Event, Québec, August 2000

13 photos of the staff party for Deputy Secretaries General, February 2000

6 photos of a Ramsar study tour to Swiss Ramsar site on Lac de Neuchâtel, February 2000

14 photos from the 24th meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee, December 1999

112 photos from the 7th Meeting of Ramsar COP7, San José, May 1999

23 photos of the 21st meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee,  October 1998

18 photos of the 7th STRP meeting and the party afterward, May 1998

Secretary General goes to Japan, 5 pix, March 1998 and plunges onward to Iran, 7 pix, April 1998

4 photos of World Wetlands Day '98 in the Bureau, February 1998

4 photos of the signing of the Evian Protocol, February 1998

22 photos from the 20th meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee, October 1997

18 photos from the Grand Commemorative Dinner for Mike Smart , October 1997

For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, 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 ). This index page first posted 3 December 1997 and most recently updated 13 March 2008.