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The Ramsar Convention has set up mechanisms for developing and adopting innovative strategic plans of the treaty. The first strategic plan was adopted in the year 1997 for a period of three years. So far, there have been four strategic plans and the one under implementation is the fourth strategic plan which was adopted during the twelfth meeting of the Conference of Parties in Uruguay (2015). It shall be implemented over a span of eight years from 2016 to 2024. The fourth strategic plan lays out a new vision under the Convention’s mission; four overall goals and 19 specific targets which are designed to support the wetland conservation efforts of the Contracting Parties, their partners, and other stakeholders. It envisions preventing, stopping, and reversing the global decline of wetlands. Overall, the Ramsar Strategic Plans have been a successful initiative and other conventions have borrowed from their success (Matthews 1993; Ramsar Convention Secretariat 2011, 2016).