22 June 2020
The 58th meeting of the Standing Committee will be held at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2020.
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16 March 2020
The 23rd meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel will take place at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 16 to Friday 20...
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In 2018, the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP13) elected a new Standing Committee to oversee Convention affairs until COP14 in...
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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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Gabon
Seven years ago on Christmas Day I travelled to the village of Tsam Tsam for the first time. I had been invited by Cyrille Mvele, who grew up fishing in the...
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Ecuador
Within one of the most bio-diverse ecosystems in the world, the Yasuni National Park and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, lies a community which believes that...
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1 December 2019
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30 November 2019
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Canada
Pacific Estuary Conservation Program (PECP), Canada Since its creation in 1987, the Pacific Estuary Conservation Program has excelled in its goal of...
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Burkina Faso
The Burkina Faso National Policy for Wetlands identifies 1,794 natural and artificial wetlands within the country, including 18 Ramsar Sites. These wetlands...
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Burkina Faso
The Burkina Faso National Gender Policy of 2009 notes the existence of age-old gender inequalities in the areas of access to, supply of and management of...
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Australia
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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Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia
The NGO Trinational Initiative for the Morava-Dyje Floodplain, Daphne (Slovak Republic), Distelverein (Austria), Veronica (Czech Republic), WWF...
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Urbanization is one of the key defining mega-trends of our time. It is transforming where and how people will live in the future. Four billion people, about...
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A key commitment of Ramsar Contracting Parties is to identify and place suitable wetlands onto the List of Wetlands of International Importance, also...
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Wetlands are vital for human survival. They are among the world’s most productive environments; cradles of biological diversity that provide the water and...
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The 19 Ramsar Regional Initiatives (RRIs) support cooperation and capacity-building on wetland-related issues in specific regions. A group of...
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4 November 2019
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29 October 2019
Mayors and officials of 16 Wetland Cities from seven (7) countries formally convened for the first time on 23-25 October 2019 in Suncheon City, Republic of...
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This report provides a current overview of global wetlands: their extent, trends, drivers of change and the responses needed to reverse the historical...
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