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 | | The Ramsar Convention, which took its name from the Iranian city where it was signed in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and sustainable (or ''wise'') use of wetlands and their resources. |
 | | Proteger is confident that adding the Parana-Paraguay river basin to the Ramsar list would attract enough international attention to the region to draw investment in sustainable development projects, in which there would be broad participation by local stakeholders. |
 | | However, ''Defining strict borders to delimit a site poses the risk of failing to achieve the objective of protection and rational use of an ecological system, which is very elastic in terms of its outer borders, and rich in biodiversity,'' added Neiff, who is also actively participating in the project. |
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