Olivier Olgiatti has integrated his pictures and videos of the IMCG Tierra del Fuego Field Symposium 2005 into an impressive multimedia production. The product will soon be made available for download from the IMCG website.
Watch that space: www.imcg.net
IMCG promotional flyer
The IMCG flyer “The future of peatlands is in conservation” is available from the IMCG Secretariat for your IMCG for promotional purposes.
Go to www.imcg.net/docum/flyer.pdf for a preview.
If you wish to obtain copies of the flyer, please contact Hans Joosten (joosten@uni-greifswald.de), indicating:
- how many flyers you would like
- for which concrete promotional activity you intend to use them
- the address to which they have to be sent
IMCG promotional post cards
As many of you have already seen, Michael Trepel has produced a series of beautiful postcards to promote mire conservation worldwide, addressing the following themes:
- Peat is not renewable. Mires in Central Europe are under pressure by an invading peat industry. IMCG advocates the wise and sustainable use of peatlands.
- The virgin mires of Tierra del Fuego are threatened
by peat extraction. To promote mire and peatland conservation in South America, IMCG holds a
field symposium in Tierra del Fuego (
- Mires and peatlands in
- Burning of peatlands in South East Asia boosts carbon emissions, threatens rare species, and causes major health problems. IMCG supports the conservation and wise use of tropical peatlands.
- Permafrost peatlands are threatened by a changing climate. IMCG supports the conservation and wise use of permafrost peatlands.
Follow the link on the IMCG website for a preview.
The postcards are freely available to IMCG members who want to promote mire conservation.
If you wish to obtain postcards, please contact Michael Trepel (michael@ecology.uni-kiel.de) indicating:
- which postcards you want to have
- how many you want to have
- for which concrete purpose you intend to use them
- the address to which they have to be sent
Use them well: stocks are limited!
Ramsar/GAP
Brochure
“Peatlands. Do you care?”
The Ramsar/GAP brochure: “Peatlands. Do you care?” is freely available from the IMCG Secretariat for promotional purposes. A preview is available at the IMCG Website, please follow the link on the main page.
If you wish to obtain printed copies, please contact Hans Joosten (joosten@uni-greifswald.de), indicating:
- how many copies you want to have
- for which concrete purpose you intend to use them
- the address to which they have to be sent
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Use them wisely: they are costly and stocks are limited!
Africa flyers
A
limited number of copies of the IMCG flyer “Mires and peatlands in South-Africa
& Lesotho” (see http://www.imcg.net/docum/mires_sa_05_fly.pdf ) produced by
Rehana Dada on the occasion of the Ramsar Convention meeting in
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