We received an email
from the "Environment, Science, Technology & Health" department at U.S. Embassy in Rabat about the upcoming photo contest for World
Wetlands Day 2012, which will be celebrated under the theme: “Wetlands
tourism: a great experience”. This years's event is sponsored
by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in
partnership with the Ramsar Convention Secretariat. They invited us to contribute by photos to this event, and we in turn invite all of you to contribute by your best photos from Morocco. They sent us this PDF file (1,78MB) about Wetlands Day Photo Celebration and the following information:
The
photo celebration theme is “Wetlands tourism: a great experience” and the
celebration solicits the submission of photographs in four Wetland areas:
wildlife, landscapes, plants, and tourists, to be uploaded by the public to an
OES Flickr site at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wwd2012photocelebration/
We
note that the Ramsar Convention website has some information on World Wetlands
Day 2012 available here.
The
brochure toward the bottom of that web page contains some helpful information –
since it is 12MB we have not attached it here.
We
will notify by January 30th the
favorites in each category as well as a fan favorite photo from each country
for posting on your social media and web site on World Wetland Day February 2.
On
February 2, 2012 the fan favorites will be recognized through postings on
multiple entities’ websites and social media. In addition to the Department,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – with whom DOS shares responsibility for
the Ramsar Convention – the Ramsar Convention Secretariat will post this
information on their sites. We have also secured agreement from the Ramsar Convention’s
five International Organization Partners (Birdlife International, International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), International Water Management
Institute (IWMI), Wetlands International, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)),
which are officially recognized under the Convention, to post the fan favorites
on their websites and social media outlets.
This email is UNCLASSIFIED.
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World Wetlands Day 2012 celebration: “Wetlands tourism: a great experience” (Ramsar) |
