CREHO to launch e-newsletter on Americas wetlands
INFOWETLAND
An
informative service of the Ramsar Regional Center for Training and Research
on Wetlands in the Western Hemisphere (CREHO)
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are launching our electronic newsletter INFOWETLAND in the coming weeks. The newsletter is an informative service of CREHO directed to organizations, networks and the general public interested in wetlands. The newsletter will be produced quarterly in English and Spanish.
The objectives of the newsletter are:
1. To disseminate up-to-date information about wetlands in the Americas;
2. To inform about the achievements of the countries in the region in terms of declaration of Ramsar sites and specific actions towards the wise use and conservation of wetlands;
3. To inform about CREHO’s activities, the Ramsar Secretariat and partner organizations working in the region;
4. To provide a space for stakeholders to publish key information related to wetlands;
5. To provide relevant information about workshops, symposiums and meetings related to wetlands in the region.
The newsletter has the following sections:
1. Editorial
2. News Section. This section will have news from the countries member of the Ramsar Convention, news from CREHO, news from the Secretariat and partner organizations working in the region.
3. Special Topic Section. Every number of INFOWETLAND will discuss a special topic selected by the editorial committee. The section could have an article informing about a new research or a chronicle about certain process implemented in wetlands.
4. Section of Events and Special Announcements.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION
In order to make INFOWETLAND a useful and successful tool, we need your help!
At this point we will need your input for our first number to be launched at the end of June 2006. The deadline to send information is June 20, 2006.
You can send us information about activities, project results and processes in your countries related to Ramsar or to actions in wetlands.
Please bear in mind the following format considerations for the information you send to us:
Format: Send your document via e-mail as a Word document or text in the email to desarrollo@creho.org.
Words: Maximum 300 words per piece of information
Photographs: Please send photographs with a resolution higher than 72 dpi along with the name of the photographer and the copyright permission to be published in INFOWETLAND.
The newsletter will have minimum 4 pages and maximum 8 pages.
SPECIAL TOPIC:
For the Special Topic Section please send us a list of topics you would like to see comprehensively covered in the newsletter and if possible suggest names of persons that could be interested in writing about the topic you suggested.
CALENDAR:
INFOWETLAND will be published quarterly. In 2006 the newsletter will be published in June, September and December.
An evaluation of the newsletter will be conducted in December 2006. Based on the results we will decide the publication calendar for 2007.
CONTACT US:
Carolina Hoyos, Institutional Development Officer (desarrollo@creho.org), will be managing the production of the newsletter. Please send your news, topics, events and information to Carolina before June 20.
Subscribers to INFOWETLAND will receive the newsletter in PDF format (low resolution file) and it will be available on HTML format in our soon-to-be-launched website.
We hope to hear from you and make INFOWETLAND a successful informative tool for the countries, organizations and people working for the conservation and wise use of wetlands in the Americas.
Sincerely,
Rosa Montañez
Executive Director
Ramsar CREHO.
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 
).
Posted 9 June 2006, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
