UNEP Global Water Quality Database Goes Online
UNEP’s Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) Water Programme launches GEMStat: a new online searchable database of global water quality data and statistics Updated on 7/11/2005 6:01:22 PM.
Yearly Archives: 2005
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
FAO and UNESCO have joined forces and embarked on a publication project “Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments”. It brings together a variety of binding […]
MedWet Coordinator at the Seventh Meeting of National Focal Points for Specially Protected Areas of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention, 31 May – 1 June, Seville, Spain
Between 31 May – 1 June, focal points for Specially Protected Areas of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention met to discuss various aspects of implementation of the Protocol […]
Ramsar Standing Committee meets in preparation for the Contracting Parties Meeting, 6-10 June, Gland, Switzerland
The Standing Committee to the Ramsar Convention met between 6-10 June, to prepare and consider draft resolutions in anticipation of the Ninth Meeting of the Contracting Parties, to be held […]
Films competing for the golden deer Ramsar MedWet Award 2005
ONLY AN AXE AWAY, 39′, P Baburaj, C Saratchandran, India The film, ‘Only An Axe Away’, narrates the history of the unique campaign to save the Silent Valley in Kerala, […]
Ecofilms Rhodes international Film Festival awards announced on 25 June
Feature films Best feature film Shipbreakers by Michael Cot The international jury awarded Michael Kot’s Shipbreakers the first prize. Set in the dramatic setting of a ship graveyard in Alang, […]