The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

26th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photographs 5

Photographs

The SC26 Dinner, 3 December 2001

At the Hôtel des Alpes in beautiful downtown Nyon, Sidharth Kaul (India) and Najam Khurshid (Ramsar Bureau), after a long day of Standing Committee work, dine.

From left: Spyros Kouvelis (MedWet), José Ramón Picatoste (Spain), Miguel Aymerich Huyghues (Spain), Herb Raffaele (USA), Nick Davidson (Ramsar); in the foreground (backwards), Gordana Beltram.

From left:  Linda Smith (United Kingdom) and her friend, Elizabeth Moore (United Kingdom), Stephen Hunter (Australia); in the foreground (backwards), Clayton Rubec (Canada)

Rachel Wiseman (IUCN), Henk Eggink (The Netherlands), and Jamie Pittock (WWF Australia)

From left: Spyros Kouvelis (MedWet), Isabelle Vial (France), José Ramón Picatoste (Spain); in the foreground, Nick Davidson and Herb Raffaele.
(The photographer apologizes to Isabelle for his appallingly bad timing.)

From left: Carlos Villalba (Ramsar), Dave Pritchard (BirdLife International), Mireille Katz (Ramsar), Wolfgang Pelikan (Austria), Annette Keller (Ramsar), and John O'Sullivan (BirdLife International)

Stephen Hunter (Australia), Clay Rubec (Canada), Eleazar Loa Loza and Fernando Clemente (Mexico)

Anada Tiéga (Ramsar Bureau) and Abou-Kérim Moumouni (Togo)

Photographs of the extremely fulfilling SC26 dinner in Nyon (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.