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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the RAMSAR Convention, and at the same time its own 70 years of operation and actions, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature organizes an online event on Tuesday, February 2nd at 6:30 p.m. titled "A discussion about greek wetlands" with guest speakers from the Hellenic Ornithological Society, the Society for the Protection of Prespa, and WWF Greece.
The state of wetlands today and their two-way relationship with birds, bright moments like Prespa, small island wetlands, but also poaching, lack of full institutionalized protection, inability to manage multiple uses and other threats, are issues we will touch on.
Speakers:
-Nikos Petrou, President, Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature
-Panagiotis Latsoudis, President, Hellenic Ornithological Society
-George Katsadorakis, Scientific Advisor, Society for the Protection of Prespa
-Thanos Giannakakis, Coordinator for nature based solutions, WWF Greece
Chair:
-Miltos Gletsos, Nature Action Coordinator, HSPN
The online event will be in Greek. It will take place on Tuesday 2 February at 18:30. It will be broadcast (live streaming) from the HSPN channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/eepfgr and from the HSPN Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ProstasiaTisFysis. The duration of the event will be 75 minutes.