The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

30th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photos -- Plenaries

30th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee Gland, Switzerland, 13-16 January 2004

Plenaries

Reception

Dinner

Cameos

Other

Photos of the Plenary Sessions

The head table (from left): the rapporteur; Nick Davidson and Peter Bridgewater, Secretariat; Gordana Beltram (Slovenia), Chair; Javad Amin Mansour (Iran), Vice-Chair.

Plenary, in IUCN's Great Hall of the Conservationists

Indonesia (left); Botswana and Ghana (right)

The Welcoming Statements (from left): Achim Steiner, IUCN; Peter Bridgewater, Ramsar; Andreas Wurzer, WWF on behalf of the four International Organization Partners

The plenary discussions, with interpreters' booths above

Ghana, with Ramsar's new Senior Advisor for Africa, Abou Bamba

Argentina, Bahamas, Nicaragua (left); (right) Austria in the center

The Secretary General, Chair, and Vice-Chair

Left: (foreground left) Achim Steiner and Jean-Yves Pirot, IUCN
Right: (from left) Alain Lambert (Ramsar), Spyros Kouvelis (MedWet), Max Finlayson (Australia and STRP), Henk Eggink (Netherlands)

The view from a higher plane of existence . . .

. . . to help put it all into perspective.

Left: Paul Mafabi (Uganda), Chair of the Subgroup on COP9; Right, center: Canada, Chair of the Subgroup on Finance -- Trevor Swerdfager and Stephen Virc

(left) Japan; (right) the USA

(back row) Slovak Republic, Czech Republic; (front row) Austria, Switzerland

A laugh a minute

The head table, with Dr Walt Reid (second from right), director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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 ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted 4 March 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.