Ramsar Convention for Wetlands
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The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. There are presently 154 Contracting Parties to the Convention, with 1671 wetland sites, totaling 151 million hectares, designated for inclusion in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.
The Ramsar Convention for Wetlands, and related Ramsar Secretariat have a keen interest in both climate change and migratory waterbird. The Ramsar Secretariat has described migratory waterbirds, and in particular shorebirds, as integrative sentinels of global change. The Secretariat is engaged in recent proposals for establishing a global network of research groups for several key shorebird species, with the aim of better integrating understanding of change and the underlying reasons. These species could form a core element of the indicator species since there is as good information any waterbird species, and as the selection is designed to cover a range of life history types, migration phenologies, and coastal and inland species.
References
- General website - Ramsar Convention for Wetlands
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