WELCOME TO THE NEW MEDITERRANEAN COAST DAY INITIATIVE JOIN THE COAST DAY CAMPAIGN – October 24th 2007 Coast Day is a unique event in the Mediterranean. It aims to raise awareness of policy makers and the public o­n the value of the coast and o­n the necessity of using an integrated approach in managing the [...]

In Athens a screening event marking the first Coastal Day took place on October 24. Here is the detailed programme of the documentaries screened: 1.Power and water from antiquity to the Mid-Ages (50mns) The distribution of water has been used as a power tool since ancient times. The film explores how cities and empires were [...]

WWD 2008 : Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People. The Convention’s suggested theme for World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2008, is Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People, and this will also be the theme for Ramsar’s 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties in October-November 2008 in the Republic of Korea. As we approach World Wetlands Day, we [...]

The first meeting of the Prespa Monitoring and Conservation Working Group (MCWG) took place o­n October 18,2007 at the city of Pretor in the FYR of Macedonia. This working group has been established in the frame of the UNDP-GEF Prespa Park Project with the task to guide the development of a consensus based transboundary monitoring [...]

The first meeting of the Middle East Sub-Regional Training Board was held o­n the 10th  and 11th  of November in Amman, Jordan in the framework of the UNEP/GEF  project “Wings Over Wetlands (WOW): Enhancing Conservation of the critical network of sites required by Migratory watrbirds o­n the African/Eurasian flyways (AEWA)”. (for details o­n the project [...]