9 July 2015
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Overseas territories)
Isle of Man Post Office has released a set of stamps to celebrate Curraghs Wildlife Park’s 50th anniversary and in memory of Patricia Harvey, Isle of Man...
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13 July 2015
Norway
On 1-3 July 2015, a Ramsar Advisory Mission (RAM) team travelled to the Nordre Tyrifjord area in Norway. The purpose of the mission was to evaluate the...
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28 September 2015
Romania
In 1965, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe granted the first European Diploma for exemplary management of a protected area to the Hautes...
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21 October 2015
Austria
A joint event was organized for the first time on 8 October 2015 in the Ramsar Centre (opened in 2013 in the „Haus am Kellerplatz“), to which the office of...
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2 February 2015
France
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2 February 2015
France
Forum du delta
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3 February 2015
Austria
Successful river restoration activities along 68 kilometres of the upper part of the Drava river in Carinthia, covering 13 municipalities and cities between...
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29 May 2015
Norway
The Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment made a joint statement on the importance of peatlands in preserving biodiversity and limiting human...
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9 October 2015
Belarus, Russian Federation, Ukraine
When the Republic of Belarus joined the Ramsar Convention in 1999 (as a successor to the Soviet Union), it designated the freshly established Sporovsky...
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26 October 2015
France
The steering group of Ramsar’s longest active Regional Initiative, MedWet – the Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative, recently met in Paris and prepared the...
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4 December 2015
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden
Peatlands cover only 3% of the earth’s land surface but contain an estimated 550Gt carbon – more than all the world’s forest. Nordic Council of Ministers...
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11 December 2015
Andorra
The Government of Andorra has recently released a new short film showcasing all three Andorran Wetlands of International Importance: Parque Natural Comunal...
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14 December 2015
United Arab Emirates, Italy
Seventeen years old Francesca Negrini from Italy, was the winner of the World Wetlands Day 2015 Youth Photo Contest. The theme for the contest was “Wetlands...
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16 December 2015
France
Ramsar France Association has recently published an innovative guidebook covering 19 out of the 42 Ramsar Sites in France featuring their services and...
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17 December 2015
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Located in the South Eastern part of the North Sea, the Wadden Sea is one of the largest unbroken systems of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. ...
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18 December 2015
France
France has designated Marais Vernier et Vallée de la Risle maritime (Site no. 2247) as its 44th Wetland of International Importance. The Site, covering over...
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18 December 2015
France
During the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris (30 November - 12 December), Nicolas Hulot, Special Envoy of the French President for the Protection of the Planet, met with...
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2 January 2015
Republic of Moldova
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2 January 2015
Albania
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2 January 2015
Croatia
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