Wetland Conservation Award winners announced. After long deliberations, the 21st meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee succeeded in selecting winners for the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award, out of an impressive host of nominations. In the individuals category, Vitaly G. Krivenko of the Russian Federation shares the Award with Victor Pulido of Peru. Who's Where . . . . . . . Delmar Blasco , the Secretary General, has gone off to Fontainebleau for festivities marking the 50th anniversary of IUCN-The World Conservation Union.
United Kingdom names two new sites on south coast.
Here's a brief description of the new ones. The Convention now covers some 70,429,156 hectares in 957 sites in 113 Contracting Parties. VI.5 Ramsar site. T he Bureau is delighted to announce that as of 25 September 1998, Madagascar has become the 113 th Contracting Party to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, so that the treaty will come into force for Madagascar on 25 January 1999. Read more about them both, right here.