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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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 7 October 2019
On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to follow up on the progress in the...
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 7 October 2019
The Ramsar Secretariat participated in the first meeting of the Open Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in Nairobi, Kenya...
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 3 October 2019
The fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14) convened in New Delhi, India, from 2-13...
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 1 October 2019
Hosted and organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), World Water Week is the leading annual global event for concretely addressing the...
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 1 October 2019
On September 23 – 25 the new Wetlands City Accreditation Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) met in Suncheon City, Republic of Korea to conduct a review of...
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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
Montenegro
Montenegro has designated Ulcinj Salina as its third Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site no. 2399). The Site on the Adriatic coast, close to 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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 5 September 2019
Ukraine
Ukraine has named 11 new Wetlands of International Importance (“Ramsar Sites”). It now has 50 in total, covering an area of over 800,000 hectares.Dnister...
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2 September 2019
Contracting Parties at COP13 expressed great interest in engaging youth in achieving the aims of the Ramsar Convention. In response, the Ramsar Secretariat...
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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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 27 August 2019
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates has designated Wasit Nature Reserve as its tenth Wetland of International Importance. Located some 15 kilometres from the coast and...
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 20 August 2019
France
France has designated Etang de Saint-Paul as its 49th Wetland of International Importance (Site no. 2398). It is the first Ramsar Site in the French overseas...
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 12 August 2019
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can...
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 12 August 2019
From 10 to 12 June 2019, Biodiversity-related Conventions gathered in Bern, Switzerland for the preparatory workshop for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity...
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 12 August 2019
Since 1993 Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity have created opportunities for increasing understanding amongst stakeholders about issues on the...
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 6 August 2019
Following the adoption of Resolution XII.10 on Wetland City Accreditation of the Ramsar Convention1 at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting...
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27 June 2019
China was officially accepted as the host for the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP14) to...
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 25 June 2019
The 57th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention takes place this week in Gland, Switzerland. More than 150 participants from 63 countries...
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