The Ramsar Convention is the world's longest-standing international treaty for wetland and waterbird protection. Signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ...

Close on the heels of three wetlands in Karnataka being declared as Ramsar sites the State is set to initiate the process to get two more sites recognised as wetlands of international importance. The ...

Freshwater is perhaps the most important resource on Earth. Despite this, few global agreements on freshwater exist and the oldest and most effective of them — the Ramsar Convention — is often ...

“This museum will be located in a part of the Mazandaran’s Ramsar museum palace and will include published sources and documents along with the approvals of the Ramsar Convention, historical images, ...

Award ceremony and more: PR and other undertakings for Lake Inawashiro were conducted during side events etc. held by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment on July 26 (Sat., local time 13:30-, ...

The Ramsar Convention was the first of the modern instruments seeking to conserve natural resources on a global scale. It is still the only worldwide treaty that restrains the countries joining it ...

Ramsar Wetland Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands. Here is a quiz of 10 questions based on it with explanations and answers. Four more sites ...

On 10 th January, 2012 the National Council of Bhutan formally ratified Bhutan’s profile entry in the Ramsar Convention, a high level inter-governmental treaty on wetlands. The global environmental ...

World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February so this year it falls on Saturday of this week. The event is an initiative of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. The ...

On 3 August, India designated Glaw Lake as the country's 101st Ramsar Site and the first in Arunachal Pradesh. Located within the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary, Glaw Lake is a ...

World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February so this year it falls on Saturday of this week. The event is an initiative of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. The ...