An informal meeting of the MedWet Team was held o­n 22 July 2005, carrying over from a Meeting of the MedWet/CODDE (Interreg IIIc South) project, held in Alcochete, Portugal o­n 20-22 July. The MedWet Coordinator, Spyros Kouvelis, explained that owing to the absence of SEHUMED, this would be an informal meeting. Participants from MedWet Team [...]

The Kingdom of Morocco has designated 20 new Ramsar sites throughout the country and updated the information o­n its four existing sites. The total area of its Ramsar sites now amounts to 272,010 hectares and covers a variety of wetland types, including some of which are identified as being under-represented in the List of Wetlands [...]