The Ramsar Secretariat is extremely pleased to announce that the Republic of Serbia has designated two new Wetlands of International Importance, Labudovo okno (3,733 hectares, 44°48′N 021°18′E) in Vojvodina along the Danube River and Pestersko polje (3,455 hectares, 43°05′N 002°07′E) in the karst region in the southwest of the country. Serbia now has six Ramsar [...]
Archive for January, 2007
What is World Wetlands Day? 2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and groups of citizens at [...]
Programme des festivités de Célébration de la journée mondiale des zones humides Centre Cynégétique de Réghaïa An niveau de la Wilaya d’Alger Du 2 au 7 février : Portes ouvertes au niveau du Centre Cynégétique de Réghaïa à l’attention du grand public pour la découverte du lac de Réghaïa et des expositions du centre d’éducation [...]
The weekend 13-14 January marked the40th annual worldwide waterbird count. About 15,000 voluntary expert observers in more than 100 countries around the world were expected to cisit the field to count birds. The fieldwork that starts this weekend is known as the International Waterbird Census (IWC). It has been running since 1967 and is coordinated [...]
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment), is a new initiative that aims to provide scientists in developing countries with free access to online environment journals thus helping to reduce the information gap between developed and developing countries. OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, [...]
