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Dr. Luisa Maffi is the co-founder and Director of Terralingua. Trained in linguistics, anthropology and ethnobiology, Luisa is one of the pioneers of the...
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The initial call for an international convention on wetlands came in 1962 during a conference which formed part of Project MAR (from "MARshes", "MARécages", ...
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The Convention entered into force in December 1975, upon receipt by UNESCO, which had agreed to act as the Convention's depositary.
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Modification of the Convention text by the Paris Protocol, December at UNESCO Headquarters. October 1986: Paris Protocol enters into force.
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The "Regina Amendments" are a series of amendments to Articles 6 and 7 accepted at an Extraordinary Conference of the Contracting Parties held in Regina,...
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The three Awards for 1999 were presented by the President of Costa Rica at the opening ceremonies of the 7th Meeting of the COP in San José, Costa Rica. Each...
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Mr Eskander Firouz, Director of Iran's Game and Fish Department, organized and held a conference at the Caspian seaside resort of Ramsar, Iran wheretThe ...
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In 2002 the Awards recognized a private company in Australia, a government agency in India and a consortium of NGOs in Central Europe. The Ramsar Award was...
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The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards were presented for the third time on 8th November 2005, on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Ninth...
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On 6 July 2012, five laureates were honoured at the opening ceremony of the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar...
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The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards will be presented on 3 June 2015 in Punta del Este, Uruguay at the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting...
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The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards will be presented in October 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the 13th Meeting of the Conference of the...
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Dr Luc Hoffmann To recognize and celebrate one of the founders of the Ramsar Convention, in this 40th anniversary year, the Standing Committee has decided to...
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On the site of drained fen land in Branston Booths, Lincolnshire, UK sits a 9 ha piece of land: officially named 'Middle Field', it is one of three fields...
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The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, called the Ramsar Convention, is the intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the...
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The Ramsar Convention sponsors and hosts a number of wetland-related activities directed to the Ramsar and wetland community and to the general public.
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The Agriculture & Food Heritage Thematic Group of the Ramsar Culture Network is concerned with sustainable traditional wetland agricultural knowledge and...
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A semi-arid environment is not the obvious place to look for evidence of past wetland agriculture, but this is assuming the environmental conditions have...
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This theme encompasses human aesthetic responses to wetland environments, and the deeper understanding and engagement with these environments that can be...
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