The Ramsar Forum mailing list launched
(23 May 1997)
The Ramsar Bureau is pleased to announce the launching of the Ramsar Forum, an electronic mailing list devoted to the wide range of news, announcements, opinion, information requests and replies concerning the conservation and sustainable use of wetland resources in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular. Though 26 May is the designated launch date, the Forum is up and running now and you can join up this very instant. The Ramsar Forum is an official service of the Ramsar Bureau, and all participants in the worldwide "Ramsar community" -- citizens, NGOs, government officials, waterbirds, you name it -- are encouraged to join it; messages are welcome in any of the Convention's three languages (English, French, and Spanish).
You may subscribe to the Ramsar Forum simply by sending an e-mail message to the following address: ramsar-mgr@indaba.iucn.org. The subject line can be left blank, and your message should read exactly this: join ramsar-forum You will receive a confirmation of your subscription and a message (for the moment only in English) which will welcome you with a fuller description of the Ramsar Forum's policy and purpose as well as details on how to use the list and its services. Read this "welcome message" right now, if you like, appended to our Invitation to Join the Forum.
[Note: The Ramsar Forum is managed by Bureau staff but owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the skills of Dan Hinckley, of the IUCN Information Management Group, for his help in getting it set up.]
For
further information, 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@hq.iucn.org). Posted 23 May1997,
Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
