What we do

We are dedicated to saving the world’s peatlands; they globally store at least 550 Gigatonnes of carbon and are home to many threatened species.

We restore mangrove forests and introduce sustainable shrimp farming in coastal areas, which have suffered degradation. We convince governments and businesses to join us.

We protect and monitor millions of waterbirds that depend on a chain of healthy wetlands for their migration routes every year.

We address the fierce and unfair competition for freely accessible water in streams, lakes and marshes.

Find detailed information including spatial information and downloadable GIS data on many important wetlands that are designated under the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, 1971).

 

Field work

Mangrove restoration

Wetlands International aims to reverse the rapid loss of mangrove forests along working towards the achievement of sustainable uses of mangroves. On this page you can find an overview of the current and past mangrove restoration activities of Wetlands International in different parts of the world...
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Advocacy

World Water Forum 6

The 6th World Water Forum runs from 12 - 17 March in Marseille, France. This meeting brings organisations in the water sector together every three years and aims to identify, understand and seek solutions to some of the most urgent water issues, from the local...
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Research

Arctic wetlands: reducing the impact of the oil and gas sector

The nature in the Arctic region is fragile, recovery is slow. The impact of just a new road in the permafrost marshes may impact a much wider area, for decades.  Wetlands International aims to minimise the impacts of the oil and gas sector on the onshore and coastal Arctic wetlands by...
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