Thymio Papayannis, Senior Advisor on Mediterranean Wetlands to the Ramsar Convention Secretariat and the MedWet Initiative, was conferred upon on 14 October 2009 an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Agricultural Economy and Development of the Agricultural University of Athens. The ceremony was hosted at the Agricultural University and was attended by a diverse audience [...]

Dear Artists, Dear present and future Rainwater Harvesters, The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) invites you to take part in the second edition of the Geneva Raindrops Award competition! The IRHA aims at sensitizing people to the benefits of harvesting rainwater as o­ne of the key solutions to water scarcity around the world. This year [...]

BACKGROUND  The Convention o­n Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. The Ramsar Convention is independent of the United Nations system of environmental treaties and reports o­nly to its own [...]

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT MedMPAnet Project Officer (Location: RAC/SPA Tunis, Tunisia). Applications arrival deadline: 22/02/2010, 17h U.T.C    PREAMBLE  The Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA) is the lead agency charged by the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP/UNEP) to coordinate the implementation of the Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Bioloigcal Diversity in the Mediterranean. MedMPAnet [...]