Resolutions of the Brisbane Conference

Resolution VI.12 on National Wetland Inventories

6th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
Brisbane, Australia
19-27 March 1996

Resolution VI.12: National Wetland Inventories and candidate sites for listing

1. RECALLING Recommendation 4.6 and Resolution 5.3, which encourage the establishment of national wetland inventories showing, in particular, those wetlands which are of international importance according to the criteria adopted by the Conference of the Parties;

2. NOTING the value of comprehensive inventories of wetland resources as an aid to implementing the wise use obligation under the Convention; and

3. NOTING ALSO the value of recognition of those sites which may be regarded as candidates for listing under the Convention;

THE CONFERENCE OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES

4. ENCOURAGES Contracting Parties, in establishing and maintaining national scientific inventories of wetlands, to include all wetlands; and

5. URGES each Contracting Party to recognize officially its identified sites meeting the criteria approved by the Conference of the Contracting Parties.

For further information about the Ramsar Convention, 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 ). Posted 2 December 1996, updated 14 March 2000, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.