Well, a few years later, the Annotated Ramsar List is almost ready for publication, and its Web-based cousin, called The Ramsar Country Profiles , is poised to begin the New Millennium in an astonishing fashion. The Secretary General, and you too, can view the first few entries here. Happy New Year. The Ramsar Bureau takes this opportunity to wish everyone 'happy holidays' and a brilliant new year. For the Convention on Wetlands, the old millennium ends with the satisfaction of having achieved the significant results of the 7th meeting of the Conference of the Parties, and the new millennium begins with the challenges, at the global, regional, national, and local levels, of building upon that progress and implementing the Convention's mission to the greatest extent possible over the next triennium.
New bookmarks help to promote the Convention.
We've made some new 21x7cm bookmarks to help introduce new fans to the Convention and remind old friends of the Ramsar mission every time they pick up their Harlequin romances. The deadline for applications is 1 February 2000, so it will soon be time to get off the duff. WATC courses are solidly based upon Ramsar principles and guidelines, and the Ramsar Secretary General chairs the Board in an advisory capacity. United Kingdom names its 149th Ramsar site. The site is of outstanding ornithological importance for wintering waterfowl and breeding waders.