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g The Ramsar Convention Manual, 3" edition 4.4 International cooperation 44 4.4.1 Cooperation with and between Contracting Parties 45 4.4.2 Transboundary wetland conservation 45 4.4.3 Transboundary species conservation 46 4.4.4 The twinning of Ramsar Sites 46 4.4.5 Regional cooperation: the MedWet Initiative 47 4.4.6 Small projects assistance programmes: SGF and WFF 47 4.4.7 Project support and external support agencies 49 4.5 Communicating the Ramsar message 49 4.5.1 The Convention's CEPA programme 49 4.5-2 Ramsar and the Internet 50 4.5.3 World Wetlands Day and WWD materials 51 4.5-4 The Wetland Conservation Awards 51 4.5-5 The Wise Use Resource Centre 51 4.5.6 The Ramsar videos 52 4.5-7 Publications 52 4.5-8 Signs at Ramsar Sites 53 5. How States may join the Ramsar Convention 54 5.1 The instrument of accession 54 5.2 Designating wetlands for the Ramsar List 54 5.3 The cost of joining the Convention 55 Appendices 56 1 Text of the Ramsar Convention 56 2 Resolutions and Recommendations of the Conference of the Contracting Parties 61 3 References 67 4 The 'Ramsar Toolkit': contents of the Handbooks series 70 5 Glossary of Ramsar acronyms, abbreviations, and terminology 71 Glossary 72-75 4
A Guide to the Convention on Wetlands, (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) Foreword to the 3 rd English edition w hen the Ramsar Manual-was first compiled by T. J. Davis and published in 1994, it was enthusiastically welcomed as an essential vade mecum through the sometimes bewildering world of Ramsar resolutions, guidelines, and terminology. It grew out of date quickly, however, especially because the work completed by the Conference of the Contracting Parties at its 6 ,h meeting, held in Brisbane in 1996, added a large number of new tools to the Convention's armamentarium. Accordingly, a second edition was published in 1997, incorporating all of the institutional changes of the preceding three years and including as annexes all of the major documents associated with the Convention. Following COP7 in San Jose 1 in 1999, however, it was felt that the volume of Ramsar documentary material had simply grown too large to be included as appendices to the Manual, and that the growing use by the public of the Ramsar Web site had made the descriptive body of the Manual less necessary. At that time, then, the Ramsar Manual was let go out of print, and the 9- volume "Ramsar Toolkit" (The Ramsar Handbooks for the Wise Use ofWetlands) was published separately in January 2000 in order to make available all of the major guidance adopted by the COP. The Handbooks have proved to be invaluable, and a second edition, including the guidance documents emerging from COP8 in Valencia in 2002, will be available on CD-ROM in early 2004. The judgment about the explanatory body of the Manual, however, turned out to be wrong, and many people have argued that there is still a need for a brief, printed introduction to the Convention and its processes. Thus this third edition contains a thorough update of the second, taking account of all that has changed since 1997. In place of the 2 nd edition's 17 documentary appendices, however, in this edition we have substituted merely a list of references to the Web addresses of all of the documents mentioned in the text and a list of the contents of the forthcoming 14-volume Handbooks series. For Ramsar documents and resources mentioned that the text without references, those links can be found in Appendix 3. Suggestions for additions and improvements to this Manual in an eventual fourth edition will be very welcome. Note: Parts of the following text have been cross-referenced to other sections of the text by use of the symbol § to indicate section numbers. March 2004 5
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