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Conventions in the field
of Natural Heritage
11 January
- El Salvador’s fourth Ramsar site
The government of El Salvador has designated its fourth Wetland
of International Importance, effective World Wetlands Day 2010
-- Laguna de Olomega (7,557 hectares, 13º19’N 088º04’W).
As described by Ramsar’s Nadia Castro, the Olomega Lake,
located in the Central American Dry Forest ecoregion, is the largest
body of freshwater in eastern El Salvador. The site also covers
the surrounding vegetation, such as the herb-dominated marshes
and a patch of seasonally saturated forest, known as La Chiricana
and one of the last relicts of this community type in the country.
More information:
http://www.ramsar.org/cda/ramsar/display/main/main.jsp?zn=ramsar&cp=1-26-45-437^24290_4000_0__
8 January
- Second Curitiba Meeting on Cities and Biodiversity.
6 January 2010, Curitiba (Brazil)
Now, at the start of the International Year of Biodiversity, less
than 10 months away from the tenth meeting of the Conference of
the Parties to the Convention, to be held in Nagoya, Japan, and
the Nagoya Cities Summit, mayors from around the world are once
again taking the floor to say that they want more: they are proposing
to work with the Parties to the Convention, United Nations agencies,
and their own networks and associations to put in place a coherent
plan for the implementation of the three objectives of the Convention
and to optimize international cooperation on urban biodiversity
issues...
More information:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/speech/2010/sp-2010-01-06-curitiba-en.pdf
6 January
- Transboundary Water Resources Management in the Caucasus
A workshop on Transboundary Water Resources Management
in the Caucasus was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 8-10 December
2009. It formed part of the preparations of the second assessment
of transboundary rivers, lakes and groundwaters, currently being
developed under the Convention. The Caucasus is the second subregion
to be analyzed – the first was Southeastern Europe (the
Workshop on Integrated Transboundary Water Resources Management
in South-Eastern Europe was held on 18-20 May 2009 in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and more details are available at http://www.unece.org/env/water/meetings/Sarajevo_workshop.htm);
in 2010 preparation of the assessment will be continued in Eastern
Europe, Central Asia, Western Europe and the Nordic Countries.
More information:
http://www.ramsar.org/cda/ramsar/display/main/main.jsp?zn=ramsar&cp=1-26-45-84^24287_4000_0__
- Raising awareness for improved management of Beung Kong
Long Ramsar Wetland
The project is located in the north of Thailand, close
to the Laotian border, 15km west of the Mekong River. The project
concerns 16 villages and 8 schools that represent about 15,000
persons. The Ramsar site is an important wetland for human services
like use of aquatic plants for sewing mattresses and cooking and
fishing.
More information:
http://www.ramsar.org/cda/ramsar/display/main/main.jsp?zn=ramsar&cp=1-63-98-398^24286_4000_0__
18 December
- World Wetlands Day, 2 February
2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date
of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971,
in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Each year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organizations,
and groups of citizens at all levels of the community have taken
advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising
public awareness of wetland values and benefits in general and
the Ramsar Convention in particular.
More information:
http://www.ramsar.org/cda/ramsar/display/main/main.jsp?zn=ramsar&cp=1-63-78^21729_4000_0__
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