From BirdLife:
Kazakhstan signs up to protect important wetlands
15-01-2007
Kazakhstan has become the 154th Party to the Ramsar Convention.
The news gives greater strength to conservation work in the country, say conservationists working to protect Globally Threatened Birds like Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus and White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala.
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