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The List of Wetlands of International Importance 18 March 2010 The Ramsar List was established in response to Article of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971), which reads: Each Contracting Party shall designate suitable wetlands within its territory for inclusion ina List of Wetlands of International Importance, hereinafter referred to as“ the List ” which is maintained by the bureau [secretariat of the Convention] established under Article 8. Wetlands included in the List acquire a new status at the national level and are recognized by the munity as being of significant value not only for the country, or the countries, in which they are located, but for humanity asa whole. The Convention establishes that “ wetlands should be selected for the List on account of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology .” Over the years, the Conference of the Contracting Parties has adopted more specific criteria interpreting the Convention text, as well as an Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands and a Classification system of wetland type. All issues pertaining to the Ramsar List were encapsulated in Resolution adopted by the Conference of the Parties in May 1999 and entitled Strategic Framework and guidelines for the future development of the List of Wetlands of International Importance . 1 Everything in the Strategic Framework is founded upon this “ Vision for the Ramsar List ”: To develop and maintain an work of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the ecological and hydrological functions they perform. The Convention ’s goal is to achieve Ramsar listing for as many wetlands throughout the world as meet the criteria of international importance; in the short term, the objective is to have at least 2500 sites in the List by 2010, almost twice the current number. To bring this much of the world ’s wetland resource under the umbr