The
Ramsar Archives
Archives
of Ramsar Convention Bureau's Web Site - Reports of Ramsar-related meetings
Reports
of Meetings reverse chronological
order (see also Standing Committee and STRP
reports) (
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Ramsar regional and subregional
meetings, 
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other Ramsar-sponsored meetings)
6th meeting of the Himalayan Wetland Initiative, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1-3 September 2008
V Workshop of the Regional Strategy for the Conservation & Sustainable Use of High Andean Wetlands, Bogotá, Colombia, 25-27 June 2008
Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) training and awareness component workshop, Amman, Jordan, 9-16 June 2008
Ecohydrological Processes and Sustainable Floodplain Management, Lodz, Poland, 19-23 May 2008
6th European Ramsar Regional Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 3-7 May 2008
4th Oceania Ramsar Regional Meeting, Apia, Samoa, 10-11 April 2008
First meeting of Ramsar site managers in Switzerland, Villeneuve, Switzerland, 15 March 2008
CBD
SBSTTA-13 side event "The world is drying. . .", Rome, Italy,
18 February 2008
Asian Regional Preparatory Meeting for COP10, Bangkok, Thailand, 14-18 January 2008
Africa
Regional Meeting in preparation of Ramsar COP10, Yaoundé, Cameroon,
26-30 November 2007
VI
Simposio Internacional de Humedales, Ciénaga de Zapata, Cuba, 5-9
de noviembre de 2007. (English)
U.S.
National Ramsar Committee meeting, Caddo Lake, Texas, USA, 31 October
- 2 November 2007 (Español)
International
Workshop on Climate Change in Latin America, Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador,
15-18 October 2007
Joint
Meeting of the Biodiversity Forum and Northern Ireland Biodiversity Group,
Athlone, Ireland, 3 October 2007
Nordic-Baltic
Wetlands Initiative: monitoring of wetlands, Lepanina, Estonia, 20-22
September 2007
4th Pan-American Ramsar Regional Meeting, Merida, Venezuela, 18-21 September 2007
1st
European meeting of Ramsar STRP National Focal Points, Mittersill, Austria,
17-19 September 2007
4th
Asia Regional Conservation Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal, 10-14 September 2007
Third
Conference on Migratory Birds of the North Pacific Region, Yakutsk, 8-13
August 2007
Avian
Influenza and Wildlife Workshop: practical lessons learned, Aviemore,
Scotland, UK, 26-28 June 2007
First
international Ural River Basin Workshop, Orenburg, Russia, 13-16 June
2007
Austrian
National Ramsar Committee meeting, Klagenfurt, 13-14 June 2007
International
Conference on Implementation of Integrated Management in the Ili-Balkhash
Basin, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 6-7 March 2007
6th
Evian Encounter: the Carpathian Wetland Initiative, Evian, France, 15-17
November 2006
2nd
Wetland Forum, "Wetland Parks management", Xixi, Hungzhou, China,
20-22 October 2006
Disaster
& Restoration workshop, III International Tropical Marine Ecosystems Management
Symposium, Cozumel, Mexico, 16-20 October 2006
Preserving
World Heritage in Southeastern Europe, Osnabrück, Germany, 16-18
October 2006
"Fishpond
management, restoration and nature conservation", Trebon, Czech Republic,
16-18 October 2006
Mediterre
- Mediterranean Parks Fair, Bari, Italy, 27 September - 1 October 2006
Multilateral
Environmental Agreements and their relevance to the Arctic, Arendal, Norway,
21-22 September 2006
International
workshop on marine and coastal wetlands: Education neetwork, capacity building,
and training, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 30 August - 1 September 2006
Third
Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Cape Town, Africa,
28-30 August 2006
Symposium
on 'Diversity of important transboundary wetlands in Europe', Eger,
Hungary, 23-26 August 2006
Catchments
to Coasts, Society of Wetland Scientists annual conference, Cairns, Australia,
10-14 July 2006,
Past
and Future in Establishing Institutions on Danube Cooperation, Galati,
Romania, 27-29 June 2006
"Capacity
building for high altitude wetlands conservation and management",
4th Himalayan High Altitude Wetlands Forum, New Delhi, India, 27-29 June 2006
Future
management of the Seine meanders and estuary: Seminar Grand'Mare II, France,
28 June 2006
Business
opportunities of wetlands, their products and biodiversity for Small and Medium
Enterprises, Illmitz, Austria, 9-10 June 2006
Ramsar
CEPA Oversight Panel, 1st meeting, Gland, Switzerland, 29 May 2006
Seminaire
d'Appui Juridique à la mise en oeuvre de la Convention Ramsar en Afrique
Francophone de l'Ouest et Centrale, Yaounde, Cameroun, 27-28 March 2006
International
Conference on the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Danube Delta,
Odesa, Ukraine, 27-28 February 2006
"Issue
based modules for coherent implementation of biodiversity conventions,"
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia, 20-21 February 2006
"Wetlands,
Water and Livelihoods", Wetlands International, St Lucia, South Africa,
30 January - 2 February 2006
Workshop
on the Practical Implications of International Conventions on Wetland Management,
Venice, Italy, 21-23 November 2005
Biodiversity
Liaison Group, Fourth Meeting, Bonn, Germany, 4 October 2005
Taller
Corredor de Humedales Altoandinos Estratégicos en el complejo ecorregional
Andes del Norte, Ubaté, Colombia, 15-17 June 2005
Asia
Regional Meeting on Ramsar COP9, Beijing, China, 13-16 May 2005
Biodiversity
Liaison Group, Third Meeting, Gland, Switzerland, 10 May 2005
Africa
Regional Meeting in preparation for Ramsar COP9,
Arusha, Tanzania, 4-8 April 2005
5th
European regional meeting on the Ramsar Convention, Yerevan, Armenia,
4-8 December 2004
Management
of transboundary Ramsar Sites - Chances and Challenges, Illmitz,
Austria, 18-19 November 2004
III
Panamerican Regional Meeting, Mérida, Mexico, 7-12 November 2004
Mid-Scandinavian
symposium on the management of Trondheimfjord, Stiklestad, Norway, 8-10
October 2004
Integrated
Management of Natural Resources in the Transboundary Dniester River Basin,
Chisinau, Moldova, 16-17 September 2004
Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, Ramsar synthesis report, preparatory meeting, Bali,
8-10 March 2004
MedWetCoast
seminar on National Strategies and Policies for Wetlands, Beirut, Lebanon,
16-18 February 2004
Workshop
on a Ramsar network for the Niger River Basin, Mopti, Mali, 27-30 January
2004
First
meeting for Parliamentarians of West and Central Africa on Wetlands, Cotonou,
Benin, 27-28 November 2003
ICRI
Coordination and Planning Committee, Turks & Caicos Islands, 17-19
November 2003
Climatic
change and foreseeable impacts on deltas,
Comacchio,
Italy, 8-9 October 2003
Conference
on Western Hemisphere Migratory Species, Termas de Puyehue, Chile, 6-8
October 2003
International
Symposium on Conservation and Wise Use of Mangroves in Southeast Asia,
Brunei Darussalam,
6-8 October
2003
7th
Ornithological Congress for the Neotropics, Termas de Puyehue, Chile,
5-12 October 2003
Turberas
y otros humedales de Alta Montaña de América Latina, Bogota,
Colombia, 1-3 October (English)
International
Wader Study Group, Cadiz, Spain, 26-28 September 2003
International
Seminar on Wetland Sustainable Management in Latin America, Paraná,
Argentina, 25-27 September 2003
Current
issues of conservation and wise use of wetlands and wetland biodiversity in
the European New Independent States, Lake Sevan, Armenia, 15-19 September
2003 [final report]
Ramsar
meets Venice, Venice, Italy, 9 May 2003
International
Coral Reef Initiative, Gland, Switzerland, 8-9 May 2003
Global
Biodiversity Forum regional session for Eastern Europe and the CIS, Chisinau,
Republic of Moldova, 23-25 April 2003
Sustainable
Management of Mangrove Forests in Latin America, Managua, Nicaragua, 3-5
March 2003
Delta
chiama Delta, Comacchio, Italy, 6 September 2002.
2nd
Pan-American regional meeting (Español, English),
Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1-5 July 2002
Asia-Pacific
Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy: 2001-2005, 7th Meeting, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 June 2002.
Ramsar
Outreach Programme drafting group, Gland, Switzerland, 10-11 June 2002
Ramsar
West Africa subregional meeting, Cotonou, Benin, 5-7 June 2002
Ramsar
Oceania regional meeting, Apia, Samoa, 6-8 May 2002
Dojran
Lake - first meeting of the ad hoc working group, Thessaloniki, 17 April
2002
Workshop
on Environmental Education and Ecotourism at Crane Network Sites in Northeast
Asia, Kushiro, Japan, 27 February-2 March 2002
"Biodiversity
in Europe", Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy,
Budapest, Hungary, 24-28 February 2002
ECO
Expert Group, International Commission for the Proection of the Danube River,
Budapest, Hungary,25-26 Feb 2002
Eastern
and Southern Africa subregional meeting, Lusaka, Zambia, 12-14 November
2001
4th Pan-European regional meeting,
Bled, Slovenia, 13-18 October 2001
East
Asian subregional meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-3 October 2001
Subregional
meeting for Central America, the Caribbean, and North America, San Pedro
Sula, Honduras, 26-28 September 2001 (Spanish
version)
Subregional
meeting for South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10-12 September 2001
(Spanish only)
International
Workshop on Climate Change and Wetland Conservation,
Kushiro, Japan, 20-21 September 2001
International
Workshop on Conservation of Wetlands and their Wise Use, Korla City, Xinjiang,
China, 5-12 June 2001
2nd
General Assembly, European Archaeological Council, Strasbourg, France,
March 2001
Wetland
conservation in Myanmar, Yangon, 20-23 February 2001
Arab
States Outreach Conference, Bahrain, 16-17 January 2001
9th
International Coral Reef Symposium, and ICRI coordination meeting, Bali,
October 2000
Transboundary
Prespa Park working meeting, Tirana, Albania, 16-17 Oct. 2000
2nd
Path-Finder Workshop: South America, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 17-20 Sept.
2000
Two
Black Sea wetland workshops, Odesa, Ukraine, September 2000
3rd
MedWet Committee meeting, Djerba, Tunisia, 1-5 April 2000
Preservation
and Sustainable Development in the Pantanal, Washington, D.C., USA, 26-28
Feb. 1999
Closed
Seas Deltas meeting, Venice, Italy, 20-23 Jan 1999
1st
Oceania Regional Meeting, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1-4 Dec. 1998
Biodiversity-related
conventions' information officers, Oct. 1998
Education,
public awareness, communications workshop in Gland, Sept. 1998
Pan-African Regional Meeting,
Kampala, Uganda, 6-10 July 1998 (version
française)
Natura
2000 and People - a Partnership, Bath,
England, 28-30 June 1998
1st
Pan-American Regional Meeting, San José, Costa Rica, 17-20 June 1998 (español)
3rd
Pan-European Regional Meeting, Riga, Latvia, 3-6 June 1998
Shorebird
Working Group, 1st meeting, Chongming Do, China, 22-24 April 1998
3rd
International Seagrass Biology Workshop, Manila, 19-26 April 1998
USA
Wetlands Month: Team Wetlands, Arlington, USA, 15-17 April 1998
International
Conference on Water and Sustainable Development, Paris, France, 19-21
March 1998
1st
Meeting of the Mediterranean Wetlands Committee, Thessaloniki, Greece,
15-16 March 1998
Southern
African Ramsar Subregional Meeting and official
report, Pretoria, South Africa, 2-6 February 1998
Framework
Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto, Japan, November 1997 (French,
Spanish)
For
further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact
the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196
Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail 
).
Updated 16 September 2008, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
