Representatives of the countries bordering the Black and Azov Seas provided an update on activities of their national working groups and urged the absent countries to establish national work programmes.
November 2010: The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has reported on the second meeting of Ramsar’s Regional Initiative for Black and Azov Seas coastal wetlands (BlackSeaWet), which took place from 5-7 October 2010, in Tulcea, Romania.
The meeting was hosted by the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, and it brought together representatives of the countries bordering the Black and Azov Seas. Participants provided an update on the activities of their national working groups and urged the absent countries to establish national work programmes. The management body concluded that BlackSeaWet was to organize a thematic seminar in autumn 2011 to assess the state of affairs of coastal wetland conservation in the area and a specific funding proposal should be prepared to this end. It also stressed the importance of including in their work programme the numerous coastal wetlands around the Azov Sea, linked with the Black Sea through the Kerch straits. [Ramsar Press Release]