Three Key Ramsar Concepts Local Community Involvement
- Recommendation 6.3 (Ramsar COP6, 1996)
called upon the Contracting Parties “to make specific efforts to encourage active and informed participation of local and indigenous people at Ramsar listed sites and other wetlands and their catchments, and their direct involvement, through appropriate mechanisms, in wetland management.”
- This recommendation was co-authored by the Caddo Lake Institute.
- Resolution VII.8 (Ramsar COP7, 1999)
“Guidelines for establishing and strengthening local communities’ and indigenous people’s participation in the management of wetlands”
- See Ramsar Handbook 5 for details