Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

10th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP)

 10^th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel

Photographic evidence [file 2]

Lest anyone doubt that the meeting really took place

Standing Committee keeps an eye on things. . . . .

Stephen Hunter (Australia), chair of Standing Committee

The obligatory Reception, which makes everyone pause and take stock of themselves

Dave Pritchard, BirdLife International, and Jan Sheltinga, Convention to Combat Desertification, at the reception in the lobby of IUCN headquarters

A coven of Australians: Max Finlayson (STRP member), Ian Noble (Millennium Assessment), and Rick van Dam (ERISS, invited expert)

Bill Streever (USA, observer from the Society of Wetland Scientists), Randy Milton (STRP alternate from Canada), Jack Rieley (observer from the International Peat Society), the Ramsar Exhibit looming behind

Geoff Cowan (STRP member, South Africa), Frank Alberts (RIZA, The Netherlands), Glenn Guntenspergen (USA, Society of Wetland Scientists)

STRP members Jan Pokorný (Czech Republic) and Toomas Saat (Estonia), with logistical support from the Ramsar Bureau (Valerie Higgins, left)

Jan Sheltinga (CCD), Dave Pritchard (BirdLife International), Najam Khurshid (Ramsar Bureau)

George Zalidis, STRP member from Greece, using Reception time to catch up on the agenda papers

John O'Sullivan (BirdLife International, sneezing), Paulette Kennedy (Ramsar Bureau), Parastu Mirabzadeh (CBD secretariat)

STRP 10 (2001) photos (3)

For further information about the 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 9 July 2001, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.