Iran will host the regional center of the Ramsar Convention for three more years, maintaining its position as one of four international hubs serving West and Central Asia and engaging countries in ...

There is a growing recognition and appreciation of the multi-functional values of wetlands. Their immense biodiversity value and their role in climate change mitigation and adaptation is gaining ...

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, represented by the National Center for Wildlife (NCW), has officially joined the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, marking a major milestone in its efforts to conserve ...

The Kerala High Court has recently directed authorities to ensure that no new construction takes place in the ecologically sensitive Kottooli wetlands in Kozhikode, as the process to designate the ...

The report identifies a concerning decline in water quality, indigenous wetland habitat, the wetland’s Australasian bittern/matuku population, and cultural values recognised by mana whenua. These ...

India’s network of globally recognised wetlands has grown again with the addition of two new Ramsar sites, Siliserh Lake in Rajasthan and Kopra Jalashay in Chhattisgarh. With these inclusions, the ...

The Kavango Zambezi region marked a major step forward in wetland conservation and regional collaboration as the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands was held ...

A senior official of the UT forest department said the proposal has been approved by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change and endorsed by the ministry of external affairs.

Coinciding with the the first anniversary of the helicopter crash in the eastern Himalayas that claimed the lives of 24 conservationists, including seven from WWF, four sites have been designated in ...

This statement is delivered on behalf of the eight Biodiversity-related Conventions, the CBD, the World Heritage Convention, CITES, CMS, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, IPPC, the Treaty on Plant ...

The item entitled “Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly” was included in the agenda of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly at the ...

With the Centre approving Chandigarh’s proposal to designate the Sukhna Wetland as a Ramsar site, the Union government will now forward the formal nomination to the Ramsar secretariat for granting it ...