NEWSLETTER
NEWSLETTER
issue 2005/2, July 2005
The International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) is an international network of specialists having a particular interest in mire and peatland conservation. The network encompasses a wide spectrum of expertise and interests, from research scientists to consultants, government agency specialists to peatland site managers. It operates largely through e-mail and newsletters, and holds regular workshops and symposia. For more information: consult the IMCG Website: http://www.imcg.net
IMCG has a Main Board of 15 people from various parts of the world that has to take decisions between congresses. Of these 15 an elected 5 constitute the IMCG Executive Committee that handles day-to-day affairs. The Executive Committee consists of a Chairman (Jennie Whinam), a Secretary General (Hans Joosten), a Treasurer (Philippe Julve), and 2 additional members (Tatiana Minaeva, Piet-Louis Grundling).
Viktor Masing (†), Hugo Sjörs, and Richard Lindsay have been awarded honorary membership of IMCG.
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While our northern hemisphere membership is enjoying the field season, IMCG itself is growing in numbers and effectivness. This newsletter reports on recent developments, achievements,and setbacks in international mire conservation. One of the set-backs is the current limited attention of Ramsar for peatland priorities, in a time when more and more people become aware of how these wonderful landscapes connect globally burning issues of climate change, poverty, biodiversity, water scarcity, and desertification.
The Ramsar meeting in
With this Newsletter the
registration is opened for the IMCG Field Symposium and General Assembly in
Finland 2006. If you are interested, please register as soon as possible,
but not later than
As always the newsletter contains a variety of peatland news from all over the world, a presentation of recent new literature, and an overview of relevant future congresses and conferences.
Please send all your proposals,
discussion contributions, news, publications, etc. to us, and with your help
we will again prepare an interesting Newsletter. Deadline for the next Newsletter
is
For information or other things, contact us at the IMCG Secretariat. Address updates should be sent to Jan Sliva (sliva@wzw.tum.de). In the meantime, keep an eye on the continuously refreshed and refreshing IMCG web-site: http://www.imcg.net
John Couwenberg & Hans Joosten,
The IMCG SecretariatBotanical Institute, Grimmerstr. 88, D-17487
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