Weija, Accra – The government has begun demolishing illegal structures at the Weija Ramsar ... wetland area. Greater Accra Regional Minister Linda Ocloo expressed her disappointment during a ...

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

Raipur: The absence of a Ramsar site and the slow pace of biodiversity ... stating that no significant work was done in this direction, and wetlands remained neglected. He also questioned the ...

The day marks the date of the adoption of the “Convention of Wetlands of International Importance”, held in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Through the ...

Morocco’s Mehdia has officially been designated a “Wetland City” by the Ramsar Convention, a recognition of the city’s commitment to conservation, stakeholder engagement, and the balanced ...

Vanishing wetlands in India On the occasion of this year’s World Wetlands Day on February 2, India designated four new Ramsar sites in three different ... looking at the ecological history of the site ...

A Ramsar site is a wetland designated under the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran, ...

“You said these are titled lands and that they are not wetlands?” President Mahama questioned him. The man oblivious of the fact that the area was marked a Ramsar site, answered in the ...

Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) The wise-use plan recommended by a Ramsar official to manage the ecologically fragile East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) calls for a review of the map of the 12,500 hectare site ...

The Kolleru Lake in Andhra Pradesh is a significant wetland sanctuary. It has been designated as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention ...