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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Draft guidelines <strong>for</strong> inland waters were originally developed by Conservation International and fur<strong>the</strong>r
refined at a workshop attended by Fatouma Ali Abdallah (Comoros), Leroy Mc.Gregor Ambroise (Saint
Lucia), Geoffrey Cowan (South Africa), Joseph M. Culp (Canada),Hederick R. Dankwa (Ghana), Maria
Hilda Cuadros Dulanto (Peru), Teresita Borges Hernández (Cuba), Ilja Krno (Slovak Republic),Ryszard
Kornijów (Poland), Antanas Kontautas (Lithuania), Lionel Michael (Antigua and Barbuda), Rudy
Vannevel (Belgium), Andrew Fraser (UNEP GEMS/Water), Matthias Halwart (FAO), Wafa A. Hosn
(UQAM), Mary Lammert Khoury (The Nature Conservancy), Jean-Christophe Vié (IUCN), Leeanne E.
Alonso (Conservation International), Nick Davidson (Ramsar <strong>Convention</strong>) and Robert Höft, Jo
Mulongoy and Marjo Vierros (CBD Secretariat).
Draft guidelines <strong>for</strong> marine and coastal areas, based upon <strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>mat <strong>for</strong> inland waters, were originally
developed through an electronic discussion <strong>for</strong>um with inputs from representatives of <strong>the</strong> following
organisations or assessments: The Global International Waters <strong>Assessment</strong> (GIWA); Marine <strong>Rapid</strong>
<strong>Assessment</strong> Programme of Conservation International; Atlantic and Gulf <strong>Rapid</strong> Reef <strong>Assessment</strong>
(AGRRA); Ramsar <strong>Convention</strong>; UNEP-WCMC; Northwest Hawaiian Islands <strong>Rapid</strong> Reef <strong>Assessment</strong>
(NOW-RAMP); The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO; The Global
Programme of Action <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Protection of <strong>the</strong> Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA);
Land-Ocean Interactions in <strong>the</strong> Coastal Zone (LOICZ); Reef Check; Reefs at Risk of <strong>the</strong> World
Resources Institute; Coral Reef Degradation in <strong>the</strong> Indian Ocean (CORDIO); Arctic <strong>Assessment</strong> and
Monitoring Programme; FAO Fisheries Division; <strong>the</strong> <strong>Convention</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Protection of <strong>the</strong> Marine
Environment of <strong>the</strong> North-East Atlantic (OSPAR <strong>Convention</strong>); WWF; IUCN; Global Marine
<strong>Assessment</strong> (GMA); Caribbean Environment Programme; South Pacific Environment Programme; <strong>the</strong>
SPA protocol of <strong>the</strong> Mediterranean Action Plan; Eastern African Regional Seas Programme; Regional
Coordinating Unit <strong>for</strong> East Asian Seas; and Regional Organization <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Protection of <strong>the</strong> Marine
Environment (ROPME).
The draft guidelines were subsequently reviewed and improved by <strong>the</strong> Scientific and Technical Review
Panel of <strong>the</strong> Ramsar <strong>Convention</strong>.
David Coates, Jo Mulongoy and Marjo Vierros (CBD Secretariat) and Max Finlayson, Nick Davidson
and Dwight Peck (Ramsar STRP and Secretariat) edited this document.
Funding <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> publication of <strong>the</strong> printed version of this document was provided by <strong>the</strong> Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands
Government.
We are grateful to all <strong>for</strong> making this publication possible.
Ahmed Djoghlaf
Executive Secretary
<strong>Convention</strong> on Biological Diversity
Peter Bridgewater
Secretary General
<strong>Convention</strong> on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
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