18 October 2018
Japan
Japan has designated two coastal areas as Wetlands of International Importance, while extending a third in order to reinforce its conservation value.Located...
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18 October 2018
Senegal
The Government of Senegal has removed the Réserve Spéciale de Faune du Ndiaël from the Montreux Record. The Ramsar Site was included on the Record in 1990...
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16 October 2018
Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland
A number of Contracting Parties in Europe have worked with the Convention Secretariat to update the information on all their Wetlands of International...
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15 October 2018
by Martha Rojas Urrego, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on WetlandsSituated on the southwestern shores of one of the world’s most plentiful...
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15 October 2018
Francisco Rilla, the newly appointed Director, Science and Policy of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, officially assumed his role at the Secretariat on 15...
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27 September 2018
Fifth meeting of the Ramsar Regional Initiative BlackSeaWet was held in Odesa (Ukraine) on September 26-27, 2018. The meeting was held within the framework...
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27 September 2018
Wetlands, the most economically valuable and among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, are disappearing three times faster than forests with severe...
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14 September 2018
Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger
The governments of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Benin and the Republic of Niger have agreed to collaborate in the management of six exceptional Ramsar Sites...
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12 September 2018
Reiko Iitsuka is the newly appointed Senior Advisor for Asia-Oceania of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, officially assuming her role at the Secretariat on...
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11 September 2018
by Martha Rojas Urrego, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on WetlandsThey say that when you look out at the salt flats of Bolivia located in...
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7 September 2018
Myanmar
Myanmar has designated its fifth Wetland of International Importance. Inlay Lake Ramsar Site (Site no. 2356), located on the Shan Plateau of eastern Myanmar,...
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6 September 2018
Netherlands
The Netherlands has designated Klein Curaçao as its 55th Wetland of International Importance. The Site (Ramsar Site no. 2355) consists of the small,...
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5 September 2018
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Overseas territories)
The United Kingdom has named Sombrero Island Nature Reserve Marine Park (Ramsar Site no. 2354) as a Wetland of International Importance. The Site is formed...
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22 August 2018
by Martha Rojas Urrego, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on WetlandsIndigenous peoples in the Americas have long revered the sea turtle as a...
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17 August 2018
China
China has named eight new Wetlands of International Importance. These “Ramsar Sites” cover over 2.8 million hectares, and so China now has 57 Sites extending...
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10 August 2018
Australia
Australia has designated the Glenelg Estuary and Discovery Bay Ramsar Site in western Victoria as its 66th Wetland of International Importance.The Site ...
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31 July 2018
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands has a long-standing commitment to promote, recognize and strengthen the active participation of indigenous peoples, and...
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31 July 2018
The Ramsar Secretariat is pleased to announce the new Briefing Note: Ramsar Advisory Missions - Technical advice on Ramsar SitesThe Ramsar Convention...
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30 July 2018
The Ramsar Secretariat is pleased to announce the new Policy Brief: Ramsar Advisory Missions - a mechanism to respond to change in ecological character of...
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18 July 2018
United States of America
Ramsar Secretary General, Martha Rojas Urrego, represented the Ramsar Convention at the High-level Political Forum on sustainable development held in New...
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