The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
World Wetlands Day 2006 in Bangladesh
Shariful Islam Jewel (jewelsharif@yahoo.com), President, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Society, writes: "We have successfully celebrated WWD 2006, 2 Feb through art competition, rally and Seminar. More than 300 students participate in art competition & arranging a big rally in the city of Dhaka. Then organized a seminar in the national press club. Minister of state (water resources) was our chief guest, universities teacher, environmentalist, journalists, students of school-college & university were presented the seminar. We published an informative & nice souvenir in this day. We used multimedia projector for seminar paper presentation & presented a video- documentary of our present wetlands condition. Audience pleased & enjoyed the seminar. Our national & private TV Channel telecasted our programme, our national newspaper also covered our wetlands day activities. In this year we r highly able to create awareness about the value of wetland. We r continuously going our activities. Scientist & universities teachers encourage us. i hope u also encourage us. i will send u all of our WWD 2006 report with photo very soon."
For
further information about World Wetlands Day or the 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 13 March 2006, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
