Sitios Ramsar En El Mundo

The List of Wetlands of International Importance
10 November 2009
The Ramsar List was established in response to Article 2.1 of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971), which reads:

Each Contracting Party shall designate suitable wetlands within its territory for inclusion in a List of Wetlands of International Importance, hereinafter referred to as “the List” which is maintained bythe bureau [secretariat of the Convention] established under Article 8.
Wetlands included in the List acquire a new status at the national level and are recognized by the international community as being of significant value not only for the country, or the countries, in which they are located, but for humanity as a whole. The Convention establishes that “wetlands should be selected for the Liston account of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology.” Over the years, the Conference of the Contracting Parties has adopted more specific criteria interpreting the Convention text, as well as an Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands and a Classification system of wetland type. All issues pertaining to the Ramsar List were encapsulated inResolution VII.11 adopted by the Conference of the Parties in May 1999 and entitled Strategic Framework and guidelines for the future development of the List of Wetlands of International Importance.1 Everything in the Strategic Framework is founded upon this “Vision for the Ramsar List”:

To develop and maintain an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of globalbiological diversity and for sustaining human life through the ecological and hydrological functions they perform.
The Convention’s goal is to achieve Ramsar listing for as many wetlands throughout the world as meet the criteria of international importance; in the short term, the objective is to have at least 2500 sites in the List by 2010, almost twice the current number. To bring this much ofthe world’s wetland resource under the umbrella of Ramsar status, the Convention urges all States to make significant efforts to implement the systematic approach for the development of the List in each country as adopted under the Strategic Framework. Full data submitted by the Parties for each of their Ramsar sites are entered in the Ramsar Sites Database, which is maintained by WetlandsInternational under contract with the Convention. The basic Ramsar List is also available, with one-paragraph descriptions of each site, as the Annotated Ramsar List in hard copy form and on the Convention’s Web site (http://ramsar.org/profile_index.htm). Abbreviations: MR: sites included in the Montreux Record, “a record of Ramsar sites where changes in ecological character have occurred, are occurring orare likely to occur” maintained by the Secretariat in consultation with the Contracting Party concerned (Recommendation 4.8). http://ramsar.org/key_montreux_record.htm. TRS: Transboundary Ramsar Site, where “an ecologically coherent wetland extends across national borders and the Ramsar site authorities on both or all sides of the border have formally agreed to collaborate in its management, andhave notified the Secretariat of this intent” (Ramsar Manual). http://www.ramsar.org/key_trs.htm.

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The Strategic Framework is available in print form as Handbook No. 14 in the Wise Use Toolkit series and on the Ramsar Web site at http://ramsar.org/key_guide_list2006_e.htm .

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La Liste des zones humides d’importance internationale
La Liste de Ramsar a été établieconformément à l’article 2.1 de la Convention sur les zones humides (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) qui stipule:

Chaque Partie contractante devra désigner les zones humides appropriées de son territoire à inclure dans la Liste des zones humides d’importance internationale, appelée ci-après, «la Liste», et qui est tenue par le Bureau institué en vertu de l’article 8.
Les zones humides qui sont inscrites...