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Here is how you can help save wetlands

Netherlands and European Union

Wetlands International has ANBI status which means that donations are tax-deductible in the Netherlands, and throughout the Euro zone (SEPA). Give today or for more information, please contact us at [email protected]

To donate to Wetlands International, please use:

Account Name: Foundation Wetlands International
Bank account: 50.75.04.127
IBAN: NL51ABNA0507504127
Bank: ABN AMRO Bank,
Bank address: P.O. Box 283, 1000 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Swift Code: ABNANL2A

USA

For US-based funders:

Stichting Wetlands International has an active Equivalency Determination (ED) with NGOsource and is certified as equivalent to a US 501(c)(3) public charity for grantmaking purposes. Our current ED certification is valid through 31 December 2025 and is available in the NGOsource repository.

  • If your organisation is an NGOsource member (or works with a donor-advised fund, community foundation, or other intermediary that is a member), you can look us up under “Stichting Wetlands International” in the NGOsource system and request our ED certificate.
  • The certificate is available to NGOsource member grantmakers for a small processing fee charged by NGOsource.

For questions about making a grant from the US or accessing our ED certificate, please contact Kate Pearson.

Please note: NGOsource and Wetlands International cannot provide individual tax advice; US donors should consult their own legal or tax advisors regarding the deductibility of contributions.

US-based individual donors:

Our NGOsource ED certification is designed primarily for institutional grantmakers (foundations, corporations, donor-advised funds, etc.). If you are an individual donor in the US wishing to support our work, please:

  • Contact your foundation, donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsor, or other charitable intermediary and let them know that Stichting Wetlands International has an NGOsource ED certificate valid through 31 December 2025; or
  • Reach out to Kate Pearson and we will gladly discuss the most appropriate way for you to make your gift.

We are not able to advise on US tax deductibility of individual gifts. Please consult your own tax advisor for guidance.

Why wetlands?

Wetlands are some of the most important ecosystems on the planet. They help combat climate change, support 40% of the world’s biodiversity, and provide nearly all our freshwater.

But unfortunately, we have lost 35% of the world’s wetlands in the last five decades and we continue to lose them at a rate faster than we’re losing forests. The loss and degradation of wetlands has a chain reaction, driving biodiversity loss, stressing food and water supplies, and exacerbating the impacts of floods, droughts and wildfires.

The biggest threat to wetlands comes from humans. Agriculture and infrastructure development are the main drivers of wetland loss. We have lost vital wetland connectivity through dams, dykes, drains, ditches, and deforestation. They have altered the hydrology of wetlands, sometimes irreversibly so.

Saloum Delta, Senegal Woman harvesting oysters. Farming of oysters is done in a sustainable manner without damaging the mangroves.

Support waterbirds

Waterbird populations cover thousands of kilometres on their annual migrations, a route referred to as a “flyway”. Protecting them is a shared responsibility that requires collaboration across borders and cultures. Monitoring is essential to identify critical sites and protect against threats along the entire flyway. This science-based approach to conservation helps ensure efficient and effective use of funding and effort. Waterbird monitoring programmes like the International Waterbird Census are especially efficient because they rely on vast numbers of volunteer counters and use low cost “look and see” methods. These are also some of the world’s oldest continuous biodiversity monitoring programmes which means they give us hugely valuable information over extraordinary long time frames. That makes them incredibly useful data resources, not only to keep track of the health of waterbird populations but also their habitats, their ecosystems and the wider world around us.

The Waterbird Fund aims to …

  •  Enable our local partners to conduct vital national monitoring programmes.
  •  Improve monitoring of waterbirds at key sites which are seldom counted because of limited resources.
  •  Guide science-based conservation and sustainable use of waterbirds.