The Ramsar site Parque Nacional de Donana, first designated in 1982, has been significantly extended by the government of Spain by the addition to the National Park (50,720 hectares) of the surrounding Natural Park, for a new area of 111,646 ha with the new name “Donana”. Spain’s 49 Wetlands of International Importance now cover 234,052 [...]
Archive for April, 2007
The Ramsar Secretariat is pleased to announce that the Government of Spain has designated 14 new Wetlands of International Importance covering a total area of 47,946 hectares, of which one mountain site of 39,979 hectares is in Cataluna, another site of 487 ha is in the Madrid region, another of 86 ha is in [...]
Over a hundred participants from 14 Mediterranean countries, representatives of the national institutions, of the academic world, of the private sector and of associations, met together in Saragossa on 19, 20 and 21 March 2007 to attend the 3rd regional workshop on water and sustainable development in the Mediterranean region. Medwet is collaborating with the [...]
A joint workshop was carried out on 22 February 2007 for the preparation of a project proposal “Capacity Building for Managing Irongate Gorge as Future Cross-border Ramsar Site” by Romanian and Serbian representatives held in the head office of “National Park Djerdap”. The workshop was attended by representatives from Romania, such as the Nature Park [...]
How much is your Ramsar site changing? This is the question that Tour du Valat Biological Station investigated in 2006 for the Camargue (Rhone delta), the first Ramsar site to be designated in France. For a number of decades, over 40 institutions have been monitoring hundreds of indicators on hydrology, habitats, fauna and flora, human [...]
