The Ramsar Secretariat is pleased to announce that Dr Alexia Dufour has been selected for the newly-established position of Regional Affairs Officer. A Standing Committee decision created this position in order to provide improved support to the Secretariat’s regional teams and, in particular, enhanced guidance to the assistant advisers (interns). This will in turn result [...]

You can now register to participate in the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm, August 12-18, 2007.  The theme is Progress and Prospects on Water: Striving for Sustainability in a Changing World. Discounted registration is available until June 30. Single day and full week options are available. For more information and the full programme, visit [...]

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with the Ramsar Secretariat, invites participation in the 6th European Ramsar Regional Meeting, to take place in Stockholm, 3-7 May 2008. The meeting is intended to bring together all 45 Contracting Parties in the European region, as well as three countries that have not yet joined (Andorra, Holy [...]

Wetlands Link International (WLI) , a global network of wetland education centres, and its parent body, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), have relaunched their Web site. To visit the new website look here. The Ramsar Secretariat signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with WLI in November 2005 in recognition of the potential to link wetlands [...]

Mr Paul Mafabi, Assistant Commissioner, Wetlands Inspection Division of Uganda and Chair of the Ramsar Standing Committee, announces that the Standing Committee has unanimously and enthusiastically chosen Mr Anada Tiéga to succeed Peter Bridgewater as new Secretary General for the Convention. Pictured o­n the right is Mr Anada Tiéga, now Secretary General of the Ramsar [...]