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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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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18 October 2019
Benin
Benin has significantly increased the area of two Wetlands of International Importance. Together they now cover the entire coast of Benin, forming a vast and...
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25 September 2019
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has designated two new Wetlands of International Importance; it now boasts 24 Ramsar Sites in total. The Sites are both water bodies in the...
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9 September 2019
South Africa
South Africa has named three new Wetlands of International Importance. It now has 26 “Ramsar Sites”.Dassen Island Nature Reserve (Site no. 2383) and Dyer...
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2 September 2019
Morocco
Morocco has designated 12 new Wetlands of International Importance. Their locations range from the heights of the Atlas mountains to the Atlantic and...
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2 February 2019
Burkina Faso, Mali
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1 February 2019
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has designated Complexe du Parc Urbain Bãngr – Weoogo et du lac des trois barrages as a Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site no....
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22 January 2019
Burkina Faso, Mali
The governments of Burkina Faso and the Republic of Mali have decided to work together in the management of two Ramsar Sites which extend along the banks of...
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22 January 2019
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has designated Complexe d’Aires Protégées Pô-Nazinga-Sissili as a Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site no. 2366). The Site covers...
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30 November 2018
Côte d'Ivoire
Grand-Bassam
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18 October 2018
Uganda
Murchison Falls–Albert Delta Wetland System; Lake George Wetland; Lutembe Bay Wetland System
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18 October 2018
Senegal
The Government of Senegal has removed the Réserve Spéciale de Faune du Ndiaël from the Montreux Record. The Ramsar Site was included on the Record in 1990...
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17 October 2018
Senegal
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14 September 2018
Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger
The governments of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Benin and the Republic of Niger have agreed to collaborate in the management of six exceptional Ramsar Sites...
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12 July 2018
Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger
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20 April 2018
Guinea, Senegal
Ramsar Regional Initiative SenegalWet held a meeting of its governing bodies from 9 to 10 April 2018 in Conakry, Guinea. This was a follow up meeting...
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26 March 2018
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Indonesia
The equivalent of three years of global greenhouse gas emissions is stored in the Congo peatlands.The Brazzaville Declaration aims to implement coordination...
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1 March 2018
Gambia
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