MAMBO Wetlands supporters will take advice from a conservation expert later this month about the Ramsar Listing process.
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The process is expected to take broad community support to meet the Ramsar Convention’s extensive criteria.
Hunter Wetlands Centre CEO Stuart Blanch hoped to see a large crowd at his presentation.
“It is significant that for 20 years volunteers have been caring for the Mambo Wetlands Reserve and Wanda Wetlands Reserve, which are important elements of wildlife corridor and habitat for endangered and threatened species of fauna,” he said.
“Thanks to their efforts these reserves can now be considered for international recognition.”
Dr Blanch has been CEO of the Hunter Wetlands Centre for the past two years.
Prior to that he was director of the Northern Territory Environment Centre for nine years.
He’s also been an environmental campaigner for WWF-Australia.
The Hunter Wetlands Centre was added to the Hunter Estuary wetlands Ramsar Site in 2002 as an extension to the Ramsar-listed Kooragang Nature Reserve.
Closer to Port Stephens is the Myall Lakes Ramsar site, which was listed in 1999.
It comprises Myall Lakes National Park, Corrie Island Nature Reserve, Little Broughton Island Nature Reserve and part of Gir-um- bit National Park.
Part of the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park is also within the Ramsar site.
The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, named after the city of Ramsar in Iran where the Convention was signed in 1971.
The Community Forum will be held at the Tomaree Community Centre at 2pm on Sunday, November 27.
For more information visit www.econetworkps.org or https://www.facebook.com/groups/EconetworkPortStephens/.
