21 June 2021
The 59th meeting of the Standing Committee will take place at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 21 to Friday 25 June 2021. New...
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29 April 2021
The 24th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP24) will take place virtually on 29 April 2021.The purpose of STRP24, the last meeting of...
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31 March 2021
Tunisia
Tunisia has added Garâa Sejenane to the List of Wetlands of International Importance. This “Ramsar Site” (no. 2447 on the List) is found at 110 metres above...
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22 March 2021
Statement by Martha Rojas Urrego, Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands, on the occasion of World Water Day 2021This year’s World Water Day theme...
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22 March 2021
South Africa
South Africa has added its 27th “Ramsar Site” to the List of Wetlands of International Importance. The Ingula Nature Reserve (Site no. 2446) sits along the...
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11 March 2021
The world’s wetlands store more than twice as much carbon dioxide as forests. But their conservation is largely absent from the Nationally Determined...
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2 March 2021
In December 2020, an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was reported in Thiès, 70 kilometres east of Dakar, Senegal. In January 2021, a...
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1 March 2021
The new guidance document on Mainstreaming gender under the Convention on Wetlands is now available.The guidance provides Contracting Parties to the...
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8 February 2021
France has published an expert report on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites) and the preservation of marine turtles in support of the...
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4 February 2021
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Islamic Republic of Iran is hosting an “International Ceremony on the...
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2 February 2021
Philippines
The Philippines celebrates World Wetlands Day by naming its eighth Wetland of International Importance. The Sasmuan Pampanga Coastal Wetlands (“Ramsar Site”...
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2 February 2021
Germany
Germany has named as a Wetland of International Importance the Rosenheim Basin Bogs (no. 2444 on the List of Wetlands of International Importance), to mark...
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2 February 2021
France
On the occasion of World Wetlands Day, France has doubled the area of its Wetland of International Importance covering the peatlands and lakes of the Jura...
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25 January 2021
In November 2019, the Italian Authorities invited the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the...
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21 January 2021
The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is pleased to invite you to an online panel discussion, organized for World Wetlands Day 2021 on Monday...
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19 January 2021
The Nagao Wetland Fund (NWF) is open for applications from Contracting Parties in the Asia and Oceania regions included in the DAC List of ODA Recipients.The...
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19 January 2021
Water, wetlands and life are inseparableAll of us would agree that freshwater is essential for life, without water there can be no life. Yet how many...
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23 December 2020
India
India has designated its 42nd Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site). Tso Kar Wetland Complex (Site no. 2443 on the List of Wetlands of...
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15 December 2020
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11 December 2020
Serbia
Serbia has designated its eleventh and largest Wetland of International Importance. Djerdap (Đerdap in Serbian; “Ramsar Site” no. 2442) covers over 66,000...
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