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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… be under some form of threat.113 More far-reachingly, no Party has yet applied the Ramsar Convention to the fullest … extent and it would be misleading to claim that any Party has managed to achieve wise use of all its wetlands. … reinforce the capacity of institutions in each Contracting Party to achieve conservation and wise use of wetlands. • To …
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Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document

… to work with the Bureau, the Chair of STRP and any other Party and IOP interested to contribute, in the preparation of … Culture is soci- ety-specific and each Contracting Party will have to decide on its own approach and priori- … to the Ramsar Secretariat by an individual Contracting Party. This submission (from Bra- zil, in 2008) has not been …
25 May 2026 Document

Major components of the Ramsar Convention- extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 3. Site Designation - The Ramsar List Each state party shall designate at least one wetland for inclusion in a … Convention. It also administers the annual budget. Each party contributes a percentage related to its contribution of …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… accession to become the Convention’s seventh Contracting Party. ■ Legal framework: The Ramsar Convention is a legally … least one Ramsar Site is obligatory for every Contracting Party. ■ Application/nomination process: National governments … Service.11 ■ Deletions from the list: A Contracting Party may, because of its urgent national interest, delete or …
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Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation

… Ramsar and other related conventions to which Lao PDR is a Party govern Ramsar sites in the country. The Convention on … Importance (Ramsar) Lao PDR’s obligations as a Party to Ramsar include: formulating and implementing … to national categories; and unprotected. On becoming a Party to Ramsar, a country must designate at least one …
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The importance of assessing the water needs of wetlands in order to preserve their ecological functions

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Conservation of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and its threatened waterbirds

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Note 5: Evaluating the risk to Ramsar Sites from climate change induced sea level rise

25 May 2026 Document