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• Restore America’s Estuaries is holding its 3rd National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration - Forging the National Imperative in New Orleans, Louisiana, from December 9-13, 2006. The Ramsar panel will include Maria Rivera (CREHO), Clayton Rubec (Environment Canada and Canada-Iraq Marshlands Initiative), and Mike McCoy (Tijuana River Estuary). For more information, please contact Kristin Hoelting at (206) 624-9100, ext. 3#, or click here.

• Stetson University College of Law will be hosting the Ninth International Wildlife Law Conference in Gulfport/St. Petersburg, Florida, from January 26-27, 2007. The Ramsar Panel will include Dave Pritchard (BirdLife International), Svitlana Kravchenko (University of Oregon School of Law), and Joseph Dellapenna (Villanova University School of Law). For more information, please contact Royal C. Gardner at gardner@law.stetson.edu, or click here. For the program in PDF format click here.

• The Ramsar Regional Center for Training and Research in the Western Hemisphere (CREHO) is organizing an “International Course on Wetland Management” in Panama from October 9-18, 2006. The course, which is sponsored by the Ramsar Secretariat and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is designed for wetland managers from English-speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere. Oscar Romo,

• Coastal Training Program Coordinator for the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, will serve as the US representative. For more information about CREHO, please contact Maria Rivera at mrivera@creho.org.

•Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, two Ramsar sites in Kansas, will be the beneficiaries of more than $200,000 in grants for signage and brochures to promote a National Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway between the two sites.