Funded by InWent a new project is undertaken by MedWet aiming to promote intersectoral collaboration to better manage water resources in the Middle East and North African region (MENA). Planned to be completed within 2007 the project is titled ‘Dialogue on water in the (MENA) region’ and will address issues of water management related to [...]
Archive for February, 2006
The films screened to celebrate World Wetlands Day in Athens on Saturday 11 February were received warmly by the audience. Organised as part of the 19th Film Festival ‘Cinéma et Realité’ the event was hosted in the Auditorium of the French Institute of Athens, a cultural center with a rich agenda situated in the city [...]
Developing inventorying tools that allow managers to access the state of wetlands is among the main services provided by MedWet. The results of the SUDOE project, aimed at developing an information system to support wetland inventorying are now released in a cd-rom. A major aid in disseminating results of the two year project, the cd-rom [...]
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and its Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative (MedWet) are calling for entries for the Ramsar/MedWet Award for films on water and wetlands. The Ramsar/MedWet Award granted at the Ecofilms International Films and Visual Arts Festival, taking place on 20 -25 June 2006, Rhodes, Greece is offered for the third consecutive year and [...]
Yesterday, 7 February, a new Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) was signed between the Ramsar Convention, represented by the Secretary General of the Convention, Dr Peter Bridgewater and the Convention for the protection of the marine environment and the coastal region of the Mediterranean (the Barcelona Convention), represented by the Coordinator of the Convention’s Mediterranean Action [...]
