Participants prepared a project on evaluation of ecosystem services of high Andean wetlands, which will be submitted to the Global Environment Facility.
15 October 2010: The VIIth workshop of the Ramsar Regional Initiative for the Conservation and Wise Use of High Andean Wetlands took place in San José, Costa Rica, from 29 September-1 October 2010.
The main outcomes of the meeting were progress in the preparation of a project on evaluation of ecosystem services of high Andean wetlands, which will be submitted to the fifth replenishment of resources of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund, the addition of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) as a member of the contact group of the strategy, and the preparation of web pages about the initiative on the Infoandina website. [Ramsar Report]