NEWSLETTER

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 (Jan Sliva), a Secretary General (Hans Joosten), a Treasurer (Philippe Julve), and 2 additional members (Tatiana Minaeva, Stuart Brooks).

Viktor Masing (†), Hugo Sjörs, and Richard Lindsay have been awarded honorary membership of IMCG.

Editorial

The last Newsletter before the 2004 South Africa IMCG General Assembly. Again with information on the meetings and with background information on the mires and peatlands of Africa. More information and contributions for the General Assembly will be posted in the coming weeks on the website that we especially established under www.imcg.net

Use your democratic rights and react and vote on all proposals that are made. You can do that by sending your ideas, comments, and feelings to the secretariat and we guarantee that they will be taken into account. Draft resolutions can be submitted to the secretariat until September 1^st, reactions are welcome up till September 24.

Our next newsletter is planned for October 2004. Please send all your proposals, contributions, news, publications, etc. to us, and with your help we will again prepare an interesting Newsletter.

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.

John Couwenberg & Hans Joosten, The IMCG Secretariat

Botanical Institute, Grimmerstr. 88, D-17487 Greifswald (Germany)

fax: +49 3834 864114; e-mail: info@imcg.net