Serbia’s Department for Protection of Nature and Biodiversity, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, with the assistance of the Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia, has designated Koviljsko-Petrovaradinski Rit (8,292 hectares, 45°10’40″N 020°04’10″E) as the country’s tenth Wetland of International Importance. The site is located in the Vojvodina province and is already a Special Nature [...]

The World Wetland Network (WWN) is a network of small to medium NGOs and civil society groups that undertake wetland conservation, protection or public awareness activities.  The network is active globally, through regional representatives, and through more than 500 members.  Recently, a core group of WWN continental and regional representatives got together in Northern Spain, [...]

On Wednesday 23rd of November 2011, MedWet, the French Institute of Greece and the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival organized a tribute to “Man, Wetlands and Water”. This innovative collaboration succeeded in bringing together environmental and anthropological issues while at the same time proving their inextricable link. The event consisted of a morning session addressed to [...]

MedWet has played a major role regarding the definition of wetland inventory and monitoring in the last two decades, through a series of projects implemented by the members and partners.. The first project, so-called Life MedWet (1992-96), was funded by the European Commission and among its objectives it was aiming to setting up wetland inventories [...]

The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award was established in order to recognise and honour the contributions of individuals, organisations, and governments around the world towards promoting the conservation and wise use of wetlands. On the occasion of the Conference of Contracting Parties (COP) meetings the awards have been given four times already. In the COP11 in [...]