The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

26th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photographs 3

Photographs

The SC26 Reception, 3 December 2001

Festive Ramsar goings-on in the lobby of the IUCN HQ in Switzerland, after an exhausting day of plenaries.

From left: Alejandro Castillo Santana (Cuba), Marco Solano (Costa Rica), Fernando Clemente (Mexico), Monica Herzig (former Ramsar staff member now representing Mexico), and Eleazar Loa Loza (Mexico)

Herb Raffaele (USA), Sheriff Faizool (Trinidad and Tobago), and Stephen Hunter (Australia)

Miguel Aymerich Huyghues and José Ramón Picatoste (Spain), Spyros Kouvelis (Ramsar MedWet Coordinator, Athens)

From left: Sidharth Kaul (India), Shahrokh Shakerian (Iran), Ibrahim Shaame and Najam Khurshid (Ramsar Bureau), and Peiman Seadat (Iran)

Olav Nord-Varhaug (Norway) and Henk Eggink (The Netherlands)

Najam Khurshid (Ramsar Bureau) and Naoko Nakajima (Japan)

Photographs of the festive SC26 reception (file 2)

-- photos by Valerie Higgins and Carlos Villalba, Ramsar

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 ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted 7 January 2002, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.