3 March 2014
Fiji
IUCN Oceania organized a stakeholder planning meeting in February 2014 in the Fiji Islands to discuss the proposed designation of the Nasoata mangrove island...
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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...
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16 January 2013
Marshall Islands
A mangrove rehabilitation and replanting project will be shortly underway for two of the Marshall Islands’ wetlands of international importance, Namdrik and...
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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...
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1 May 2013
Kiribati
The Ramsar Secretariat is delighted to welcome Kiribati to the Ramsar family as its 166th Contracting Party. UNESCO has confirmed that the instrument of...
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23 May 2013
Oceania
Report and photos by Vai Junblut, Ramsar Officer for Oceania (ROO)Vainuupo Jungblut, Ramsar Officer for Oceania (ROO), recently conducted an in-country...
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29 May 2013
Kiribati
The island state of Kiribati joined the Convention on Wetlands on 3 April 2013, and the Convention will enter into force for Kiribati on 3 August....
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31 July 2013
Fiji
Vainuupo Jungblut, Ramsar Officer for Oceania (ROO) based at the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in Samoa, recently visited the Fiji...
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4 August 2013
Samoa
The management of Lake Lanoto'o, Samoa's largest permanent freshwater wetland, has seen considerable progress following the recent completion of the Ramsar...
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10 April 2014
Fiji
Visiting the Fiji Islands in March, Vainuupo Jungblut, Ramsar Officer for Oceania, had the opportunity to discuss the development of the Pacific Mangrove...
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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...
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26 May 2014
Papua New Guinea
Vainuupo Jungblut, the Ramsar Officer for Oceania visited Papua New Guinea from 14-18 April 2014 to assist the National Ramsar Administrative Authority ...
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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...
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11 August 2014
Oceania
From 30 June to 4 July 2014 Vainuupo Jungblut, Ramsar Programme Officer for Oceania visited the French Territory of Wallis and Futuna. At the request of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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24 August 2012
Marshall Islands
The government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands has designated an exceptional atoll that is part of that country's Ralik Chain, and lies some 390...
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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...
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14 February 2010
Australia
Wetlands AustraliaNATIONAL WETLANDS UPDATE 2010 - Issue No. 18ANNUAL UPDATE FOR AUSTRALIA’S WETLAND COMMUNITYRamsar Secretary General visits AustraliaSimon...
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