Recommends to the appropriate States and International Organizations that they bring to the attention of competent authorities the primary importance of:
(a) Ensuring strict supervision on coastal waters, especially in the Caspian Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Kattegat, the North Sea and the Channel;
(b) Accelerating research into combating oil pollution; and (c) Applying promptly and rigorously the statutory punishments.
Recommendation 7. Pesticides
The Conference,
Noting with concern the grave danger to wetlands and their flora and fauna represented by the use of persistent pesticides, such as chlorinated hydrocarbons, due to run off, discharge of waste products and deliberate application;
Deploring an apparent tendency for such pesticides, although often banned or restricted in the countries of manufacture, to be exported in quantity and even offered for sale at reduced prices to less developed countries, which may lead to the degradation of natural areas including wetlands of inter- national importance;
Recommends that governments both of countries from which such pesticides originate and of those in which their use is not yet fully controlled take all necessary measures to curtail and, wherever possible, ban or severely restrict the sale and use of persistent pesticides.
RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION
Recommendation 8. Promotion of wetlands research
The Conference,
Being aware of the serious and deteriorating situation facing waterfowl in many parts of the Palaearctic Region;
Realizing the need for improving scientific information for the correct assessment of wetlands for the proposed Wetlands Convention;
Recommends that Governments and all appropriate departments and institutions concerned with natural resources should assist and facilitate wetland research at all levels, and in particular:
(a) that all countries which do not already carry out regular waterfowl counts on important wetlands should endeavour to do so at least twice a year on dates advised by the International Wildfowl Research Bureau;
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