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Meeting
63rd meeting of the Standing Committee
3 June 2024
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Feature
Ecosystems of exceptional value: Exploring the Convention on Wetlands’ first criterion for recognition
18 April 2024
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Feature
Wetland health is human health – How these neglected ecosystems support food, water, and climate security
7 April 2024
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Zero waste and the perils of plastic: Wetlands fight back against existential threat from pollution
30 March 2024
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News
France names one new Wetland of International Importance and extends another
22 March 2024
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News
Call for Proposals Open - Nagao Wetland Fund (NWF) 2024
15 February 2024
Status of assessed contributions to the Convention on Wetlands, 31 March 2024
17 April 2024
Notification
Data boundaries completion in the RSIS
17 April 2024
Notification
Call for expression of interest in a national wetland inventories training course
8 April 2024
Notification
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Ecosystems of exceptional value: Exploring the Convention on Wetlands’ first criterion for recognition
16 April 2024
![Much of the world's food, essential to human health and well-being, comes from wetlands.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_crop_480_x_230/public/2024-04/6628_TheStoryofRice_0.jpg?h=cf883c37&itok=Nbkl8rp4)
Wetland health is human health – How these neglected ecosystems support food, water, and climate security
07 April 2024
![Plastic pollution poses a threat to Ramsar Sites.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_crop_480_x_230/public/2024-03/Plastic%20pollution.jpeg?h=71976bb4&itok=nR4ohlZc)
Zero waste and the perils of plastic: Wetlands fight back against existential threat from pollution
30 March 2024
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Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: Upscaling wetland conservation, restoration and wise use through National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
23 November 2023
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Brief on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands for UNFCCC COP28
17 November 2023
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Wetlands and plastic pollution
10 November 2023
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The Convention on Wetlands is the intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
The Convention was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971 and came into force in 1975. Since then, almost 90% of UN member states, from all the world’s geographic regions, have acceded to become “Contracting Parties”.
Number of contracting parties:
172
Number of wetlands:
2.514
Total surface of designated sites:
257.256.616
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