World Wetlands Day 2008

Celebrations for this year's World Wetlands Day for the Okavango Delta Ramsar site are taking place this week in Maun. This year's activities include an international wetlands conference on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, the Environment and Development Dialogue public meeting today, commemoration ceremonies at the Big Tree on the Thamalakane River on Saturday, and, on Saturday evening, the official launch of the OKACOM Secretariat. In time for the event in HOORC's Library is the newly published Okavango Delta Management Plan, the document representing the culmination of the ODMP planning process.