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Banrock Station: how a Ramsar wetland owned by a private agribusiness in South Australia became a cultural and educational hub
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...
Jody SWIREPIK
First Assistant Secretary,
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Head of Administrative Authority
Australia
Email: ausramsaradminauth@environment.gov.au
Phone: +61 262759245
Kathryn EYLES
Assistant Director National Focal Point,
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
National Focal Point, STRP Focal Point
Australia
Email: kathryn.eyles@awe.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 6275 9734
Jenny TOMKINS
Assistant Director,
Wetlands, Policy and Northern Water Use Branch
CEPA Government Focal Point
Australia
Email: jenny.tomkins@awe.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 6274 2720
Christine PRIETTO
Director,
Hunter Wetlands Centre
CEPA NGO Focal Point
Australia
Email: christine.prietto@gmail.com
Phone: +61 2 4951 6466
Australia’s work on developing ecological character descriptions (ECDs) moves forward
8 December 2011
Australia
Understanding and documenting ecological character is central to maintaining and protecting the values of wetlands and underpins best practice management of...
Australia's Wetlands and Waterbirds Taskforce debates Ramsar issues, November 2004
2 December 2004
Australia
Australian National Wetlands and Waterbirds Taskforce meeting, 26 November 2004Australia's Wetlands and Waterbirds Taskforce met in Sydney for three days 24 ...
New Wetland Policy for Western Australia
18 September 1997
Australia
Wetlands Conservation Policy for Western AustraliaA Wetlands Conservation Policy was released by the Minister for the Environment in the Government of...
New publication from Sydney Olympic Park on managing urban wetlands
20 March 2014
Australia
With more than 10 years experience in  wetland education and training in the management of freshwater and estuarine wetlands in urban areas, the Sydney...
Australia’s 65th Ramsar Site
10 April 2013
Australia
The government of Australia has designated Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands (862 hectares, 38º03'S 140º56'E) on the South Australia coast as its 65th Wetland...
World’s first Ramsar Site turns 40
8 May 2014
Australia
On 8 May 1974, Australia designated Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory as the world’s first Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar...
Endangered daisy reintroduced in the Banrock Station Ramsar Site, Australia
24 July 2014
Australia
Today hundreds of Spiny Daisies will be planted at the Banrock Station Ramsar Site, as part of a project aimed at reintroducing the endangered plant in...
Oceania Contracting Parties prepare for COP12
24 September 2014
Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa
The Oceania Regional Meeting in preparation of the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP12) was...
Wise use of wetlands in Australia: Priorities for effective implementation?
3 November 2014
Australia
A Parallel Event to the World Parks Congress, Sydney, 12 -19 November 2014: Forum on the Wise Use of Wetlands in AustraliaWednesday 12 November 2014, 8...
Ramsar Site celebrations at Hunter Wetlands Centre, Australia
5 December 2012
Australia
Report and photos by Anna Ryan, Ecotourism Manager, Hunter Wetlands Centre, AustraliaFirst decade as Ramsar Site Celebrations were held in Newcastle NSW on...
Article 3.2 guidance from Australia
13 January 2010
Australia
Article 3.2 of the Convention on Wetlands commits Contracting Parties to monitor their Ramsar sites and inform the Secretariat whenever the ecological...
Ramsar Secretary General visits Australia
14 February 2010
Australia
Wetlands AustraliaNATIONAL WETLANDS UPDATE 2010 - Issue No. 18ANNUAL UPDATE FOR AUSTRALIA’S WETLAND COMMUNITYRamsar Secretary General visits AustraliaSimon...
Australia reviews status of Ramsar wetlands
2 February 2009
Australia
reprinted from http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/garrett/2009/mr20090202a.html The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP Minister for the Environment,...
Australia's Coorong Ramsar site as an example of climate change challenges
29 September 2008
Australia
Over-allocation of water and climate change wreck ecological havoc: big issues for Ramsar C0P10?Australia’s Coorong Ramsar site provides an example of the...
SWS annual meeting, 2006, in Cairns, Australia
4 September 2006
Australia
Ramsar and the "Catchments of Coasts" conference The Catchments to Coasts conference was held in Cairns, Australia, from 10-14 ...

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