Side Event

New Tools for Conserving Inland Water Ecosystems

Organizer
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Date and Time
11 February 2004 13:30 - 14:30

Meeting
Seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 7)

<br><b>LOCALE<br> LEGEND HOTEL<br><br></b> The programme will include the announcement of an major new Ramsar designation, and presentations of WWF's Managing Rivers Wisely, a book of integrated river basin management case studies and a new study on the economic values of wetlands. The discussion will be useful for those considering the inland water ecosystems programme of work.<br><br> Speakers include Dr. Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and Christopher E. Williams, Manager of WWF's River Conservation Programme. There will be a video message from Chief Emeka Anyaoku, President of WWF-International.<br><br>Lunch will be served.<br>