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100 delegates from 50 countries attend the 53rd Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention
31 May 2017
Switzerland
The 53rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention is taking place this week in Gland, Switzerland. More than 100 delegates from 50...
13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
9 September 2017
China
The 13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification took place in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, 6 -9 September 2017...
14th PAN-AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL CONGRESS (PAOC)
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”....
150,000 migratory water birds protected as Myanmar’s Gulf of Mottama designated as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention
9 May 2017
Myanmar
Myanmar designates the Gulf of Mottama as a Wetland of International Importance. The Gulf of Mottama is one of the world’s most dynamic estuaries and the...
2017 Wetlands Youth Photo Contest – The Top 50
28 March 2017
We are pleased to announce the Top 50 pictures of the 2017 Wetlands Youth Photo Contest, which capture the theme “Wetlands that help us cope with extreme...
20th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel
22 February 2017
The 20th meeting of the Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP20) took place at the Secretariat’s headquarters in Gland, Switzerland from 13-17...
20th meeting of the STRP
13 February 2017
The 20th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel will take place at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 13 to Friday 17...
53rd Meeting of the Standing Committee
29 May 2017
The 53rd meeting of the Standing Committee took place at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2017.
53rd Meeting of the Standing Committee: List of Participants
5 July 2017
7th Oceania Regional Meeting of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
6 March 2017
Tanoa International, Nadi, Fiji IslandsThe Seventh Oceania Regional Meeting of the Ramsar Convention will provide a platform for the Contracting Parties of...
8th Steering Committee meeting of the MEA knowledge management initiative (InforMEA)
27 June 2017
From 20 to 23 June Ramsar IT Officer and Documentation Officer attended the 8th MEA Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Steering Committee in Montreux...
A Field of Wheat by Ruth Levene
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...
A historic day for transboundary Prespa Lake
21 February 2017
Greece
14th February 2017, was a historic day for Greece’s policy record in the field of nature conservation and sustainable development. The parliament of the...
A Survey of the State of the World’s Wetlands
27 April 2017
Knowledge about the status and trends of the world’s remaining wetlands is very patchy and limited. To improve this knowledge, and to better inform wetland...
About the Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI)
7 March 2017
About the Ramsar Convention
The Convention on Wetlands, called the Ramsar Convention, is the intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of...
About the Ramsar Regional Initiative for Central Asia (RRI-CA)
7 March 2017
About the Regional Initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands in the Amazon River Basin
7 March 2017
About the Regional Initiative for the Senegal River Basin (SenegalWet)
7 March 2017
Algeria launches bold strategy to conserve its wetlands
27 March 2017
Algeria
In a major boost for Algeria’s vulnerable wetlands, the government has adopted a new national strategy to conserve them for the long-term benefit of people...

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