Ramsar COP11 DOC. 9 Regional Overview of the Implementation Of
11th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) “Wetlands: home and destination“ Bucharest, Romania, 6-13 July 2012 Ramsar COP11 DOC. 9 English and French only Regional overview of the implementation of the Convention and its Strategic Plan in Africa This synthesis is based on National Reports which are available on the Ramsar website at www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-documents-natl-rpts-national-reports-2012/main/ramsar/1-31- 121%5E25327_4000_0__. Figure 1: Contracting Parties in Africa 1. Contracting Parties in Africa (47): Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, and Zambia. Ramsar COP11 DOC. 9, page 2 2. Contracting Parties whose National Reports are considered in this analysis (41): Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, and United Republic of Tanzania. 3. National reports from Chad, Egypt, and Nigeria were received after the deadline for inclusion in the Ramsar Database of National Reports to be discussed by COP11.
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