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26th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Agenda papers


26th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee
Gland, Switzerland, 3 - 7 December 2001
Agenda item 16

DOC. SC26-17

World Wetlands Day 2002

Action requested: The Standing Committee is requested to note the actions taken by the Bureau to encourage the celebration of World Wetlands Day 2002.

1. Standing Committee members and observers should have received the WWD 2002 materials produced by the Bureau and distributed to some 5000 addresses at the end of October 2001. The Bureau is now receiving an steady flow of requests for further copies of these materials.

2. For more details on this issue, Standing Committee members and observers are invited to visit the Ramsar Web site at http://ramsar.org/wwd2002_index.htm.


For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 7 November 2001, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.

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