The Imperial Government of Iran, in accordance with recommendations of earlier international meetings on wetlands and waterfowl conservation, convened an International Conference on the Conservation of Wetlands and Waterfowl, with a view to promoting international collaboration in this field.
The Ramsar Convention (The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat) is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of wetlands, to stem the progressive encroachment on and loss of wetlands now and in the future, recognising the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value. It is named after the town of Ramsar in Iran.
The convention was developed and adopted by participating nations at a meeting in Ramsar on February 2, 1971, and came into force on December 21, 1975.
Suncheon Bay (Ramsar site), not far from Changwon, Republic of Korea. 34°52'20.09"N 127°30'52.46"E
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Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
On Aug. 3, 1974, at a meeting in Ramsar, a town on the Caspian Sea, Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi, in a typically extravagant gesture, doubled the targets for Iran's new five-year economic development plan with a stroke of his pen.
