The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

World Wetlands Day 2001: Uganda

Launching of the Uganda Wetlands Sector Strategic Plan 2001-2010 and Commemoration of the 30^th Anniversary of the Ramsar Convention

The Secretary General, Mr Delmar Blasco, addressing ceremonies for the launching of the Strategic Plan, Kampala, 1 February 2001. Read the address.

Assembled dignitaries ecstatic over the launching of the Uganda Wetlands Sector Strategic Plan 2001-2010, Kampala, 1 February 2001

including (front row, from left): Paul Mafabi, Wetlands Programme, Vice-Chair of the Ramsar Standing Committee; Delmar Blasco, Ramsar Secretary General; the Minister of Land, Water, and Environment; the Minister of Information; and the Minister of Environment.

See also: further World Wetlands Day liveliness at Lutembe Bay, 2 February, including crafts, canoe races, a World Wetlands Day cake, and lots of singing kids.

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 1 March 2001, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.