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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

Liberia is amongst many countries around the world keen on the Ramsar Convention, when it comes to the protection of wetlands.This Convention primarily takes wetlands so seriously because of how ...

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 ...

The Ramsar convention, initiated in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands. (Twitter/Supriya Sahu) Tamil Nadu has added four new sites to the Ramsar ...

An advisor to the key international environment convention Ramsar says it is being used in the wrong way in the debate around the Murray-Darling Basin. A number of important Australian wetlands are ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: Bhoj wetland in Bhopal faces the threat of being delisted from Ramsar Convention’s list of wetlands of international importance due to possible damage to its ecological character.