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Ramsar staff do not only save wetlands. They also, like many others, run after footballs.

Here (below) is a group photograph of the football team made up of staff members of the Three Great Environmental Institutions of Gland, Switzerland, namely The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971), IUCN-The World Conservation Union, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International).

These fierce-looking players work for small pay but enthusiastically take on all comers from the local villages, and sometimes win. Or draw.

For further information about the Ramsar 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 18 July 2002, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.