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 promote economic development that is compatible with conservation and the wise use of wetlands. This means advising sector-leading companies, and advocating public and industry-wide sustainability criteria.

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

Restoring peatlands in Russia

Many peatlands in Russia were drained for agriculture, forestry and peat mining in the past and then left abandoned. Now they are subject to wind and water erosion, major fires and cause large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions. Given the significan...
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Advocacy

International Symposium on Water and Wetlands in the Mediterranean “From Grado to Agadir: The next 20 years”

International Symposium, Agadir, Morocco, 6-8 February 2012   The Ramsar Convention and its MedWet Initiative, the High Commissariat for Water, Forests and Desertification Control of Morocco announce the organisation on an international symposium on wat...
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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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