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Although considered mystical and potentially dangerous, wetlands have since pre-historical times been amongst the first places where people choose to live....
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 16 January 2017
Sweden has updated the information on Tärnasjön (Ramsar Site no. 29), and the Site has been extended to incorporate the Mire Protection Plan Site “Tärnasjön...
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 The Marais Vernier (Normandy, France) is a 4,500 hectare marsh located in a former meander of the River Seine, not far from the river mouth. Containing...
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One of the biggest environmental disasters is happening right now. It concerns the large-scale conversion of Southeast Asia’s peatswamp forests to...
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Paludiculture – how we can use peatlands sustainablyDrained peatlands cover a mere 0.3% of the world’s land surface, but they are the source of almost 5% of...
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 The history of conservation by indigenous peoples and local/traditional communities goes back thousands of years. It frequently features strong social...
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 Five hours into the new day, the first rays of sunlight are beginning to warm the mixture of fresh and salty waters in the channels and along the...
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Banrock Station in South Australia has been owned since 1993 by one of the major wine-producing businesses in the world: Accolade Wines (formerly Hardys...
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A semi-arid environment is not the obvious place to look for evidence of past wetland agriculture, but this is assuming the environmental conditions have...
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20 January 2017
Annual Contributions 2017
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 20 January 2017
Senegal
The 14th PAOC was held at Hotel Ngor Diarama, Dakar, Senegal, 16–21 October 2016, with the theme “Global changes — threats and opportunities for birds”....
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 20 January 2017
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Scientists have discovered the world’s largest tropical peatland in the remote Congo swamps, estimated to store the equivalent of three year’s worth of the...
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 23 January 2017
Italy
A joint mission between the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands was...
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 We benefit in so many ways from wetland ecosystems but most people do not recognize wetlands’ vital value in sustaining our lives. More than a billion...
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 24 January 2017
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran’s parliament (Majlis) on Thursday approved bills, mandating the administration to ensure the implementation of strategic environmental assessment (SEA)...
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 25 January 2017
Mexico
The National Commission for Protected Natural Areas (CONANP) carries out successful conservation and restoration initiative in this peri-urban wetland, which...
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26 January 2017
Agricultural heritage, food and wetlands
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 26 January 2017
Netherlands
The Netherlands has now published updated information on all of its Ramsar Sites (excluding some of those in the Kingdom’s Caribbean territories). Site...
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 The memory of agriculture and associated civilisations is carried by landscapes, seeds, plants, animals and by farmers' knowledge and technologies, but also...
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On the site of drained fen land in Branston Booths, Lincolnshire, UK sits a 9 ha piece of land: officially named 'Middle Field', it is one of three fields...
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