17 September 2009
Rwanda
The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) recently held a training of trainers workshop on community based planning and management of ecotourism and...
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18 September 2009
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Overseas territories)
Gough and Inaccessible are two island nature reserves in the mid South Atlantic that are part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena,...
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22 September 2009
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
During the 6th workshop on the Regional Strategy for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of High-Andean Wetlands (21-24 September, La Paz, Bolivia), the...
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25 September 2009
An "International course on the ecohydrological approach to revitalization (i.e., restoration) and conservation of wetlands" was held on 15-20 June 2009 in...
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28 September 2009
The Klagenfurt University’s Master-of-Science (M.Sc.) programme “Management of Protected Areas”, in cooperation with the E.C.O. Institute of Ecology,...
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28 September 2009
South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean form the first sub-Antarctic Ramsar Site (No. 1688), designated on 22 May 2007. The island...
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1 October 2009
Burkina Faso
The government of Burkina Faso has completed the process for designating twelve new Ramsar sites of extraordinary interest. In varied locations, from the...
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5 October 2009
World Habitat Day5 October 2009PDF“Planning our Urban Future,” the theme of World Habitat Day this year, is an especially welcome focus for the Contracting...
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8 October 2009
Ramsar Regional Centre for Central and West Asia, Ramsar City29th September – 1st OctoberThe first of a series of CEPA (Communication, Education,...
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9 October 2009
Czech Republic, Poland
The “Krkonose/Karkonosze subalpine peatbogs” were added on 21 September 2009 to the list of Transboundary Ramsar Sites during the 7th international...
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14 October 2009
United States of America
Following on from the United States’ designation of the Audubon Society’s Francis Beidler Forest in the state of South Carolina in 2008, that Party’s 25th...
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14 October 2009
Rwanda
Following the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation by the General Director of the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) and the Ramsar...
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15 October 2009
Argentina
The government of Argentina has designated a beautiful and valuable new Wetland of International Importance in the province of Tierra del Fuego, one which at...
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15 October 2009
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) invites us at today’s occasion of the World Food Day (16 October) to “Imagine achieving food...
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22 October 2009
At a meeting in Nairobi last week, the Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention Anada Tiega, the Chair of the Convention’s Scientific Body (STRP) Heather...
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26 October 2009
France
An important seminar for French Ramsar site managers took place on 7-8 October 2009 in Evian. It attracted about hundred participants, representing site...
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2 November 2009
ASEAN Wetland Management Training CourseSungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore, 19 – 27 October 2009On 19 October 2009, a nine-day Wetland Management...
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2 November 2009
From 21 – 23 October 2009, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and the National Parks Board (NParks) of Singapore also hosted the ‘ASEAN Conference on...
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4 November 2009
SPREPSecretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment ProgrammePO Box 240, Apia, Samoa www.sprep.orgSPREP Press ReleaseFor Immediate Release 3 November...
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16 November 2009
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic has benefited from a Ramsar Swiss Grant for Africa project, “Establishment of a network of Ramsar sites along the Congo Rivers,”...
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