The Wetland Management Training Course, organized by the Singapore National Parks Board’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR), with funding from the European Union through the Association of South-East Asian Nations Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and the Singaporean Government, convened from 19-27 October 2009, in Singapore.

Participants from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam attended, and consisted of wetland policy makers, managers and staff from wetland sites, including Ramsar sites. Ccourse contents included: the Ramsar Convention, wetlands and water; sustainable use of wetlands, wetland habitat and water management, wetland management planning; wetland species identification, study and monitoring; the control of pests and invasive species; and wetland education and public awareness.
Link to further information
Ramsar press release, 2 November 2009