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22 June 2020
The 58th meeting of the Standing Committee will be held at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2020.
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16 March 2020
The 23rd meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel will take place at Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, from Monday 16 to Friday 20...
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 20 December 2019
Colombia has designated two new Wetlands of International Importance: Complejo de Humedales Urbanos del Distrito Capital de Bogotá (Urban Wetland Complex of...
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 20 December 2019
The United States of America has designated the United States side of the Niagara River Corridor, iconic for its world-renowned waterfalls, as its 40th...
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 29 October 2019
Mayors and officials of 16 Wetland Cities from seven (7) countries formally convened for the first time on 23-25 October 2019 in Suncheon City, Republic of...
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 18 October 2019
Benin
Benin has significantly increased the area of two Wetlands of International Importance. Together they now cover the entire coast of Benin, forming a vast and...
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 7 October 2019
On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to follow up on the progress in the...
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 7 October 2019
The Ramsar Secretariat participated in the first meeting of the Open Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in Nairobi, Kenya...
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 3 October 2019
The fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14) convened in New Delhi, India, from 2-13...
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 1 October 2019
Hosted and organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), World Water Week is the leading annual global event for concretely addressing the...
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 1 October 2019
On September 23 – 25 the new Wetlands City Accreditation Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) met in Suncheon City, Republic of Korea to conduct a review of...
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 25 September 2019
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has designated two new Wetlands of International Importance; it now boasts 24 Ramsar Sites in total. The Sites are both water bodies in the...
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 9 September 2019
Montenegro
Montenegro has designated Ulcinj Salina as its third Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site no. 2399). The Site on the Adriatic coast, close to the...
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 9 September 2019
South Africa
South Africa has named three new Wetlands of International Importance. It now has 26 “Ramsar Sites”.Dassen Island Nature Reserve (Site no. 2383) and Dyer...
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 5 September 2019
Ukraine
Ukraine has named 11 new Wetlands of International Importance (“Ramsar Sites”). It now has 50 in total, covering an area of over 800,000 hectares.Dnister...
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2 September 2019
Contracting Parties at COP13 expressed great interest in engaging youth in achieving the aims of the Ramsar Convention. In response, the Ramsar Secretariat...
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 2 September 2019
Morocco
Morocco has designated 12 new Wetlands of International Importance. Their locations range from the heights of the Atlas mountains to the Atlantic and...
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 27 August 2019
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates has designated Wasit Nature Reserve as its tenth Wetland of International Importance. Located some 15 kilometres from the coast and...
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 20 August 2019
France
France has designated Etang de Saint-Paul as its 49th Wetland of International Importance (Site no. 2398). It is the first Ramsar Site in the French overseas...
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 12 August 2019
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can...
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