Demonstrating Impact
Our practical, site-level conservation, restoration and sustainable use activities not only deliver significant direct impact in wetlands with and for local people but also provide solutions and best practices that can be taken up at scale. But to unleash the benefits of healthy wetlands for societies and economies, we need to go beyond the site level.
As the source of life, wetlands are key in any given landscape. They depend on – and sustain – natural flows of freshwater, carbon, and valuable soil beyond the wetland itself, underpinning the health of landscapes and entire transboundary regions.
Due to the diverse values of wetlands, the main challenges are multiple and competing claims, and the perceived disconnect between economy and nature. This is why site-level interventions need to be holistically combined with systemic interventions at landscape scale that create enabling policies, unlock finance, and transform business practices.
Collaborating with governments, communities, civil society organisations, companies, and investors, we drive transformative change across landscapes – underpinning sustainable and prosperous wetland-based economies.
Our work with and through others in landscapes, focused on 12 flagship landscapes from Argentina to the Philippines, will provide the public and private stewards of the world’s wetlands with inspiration, tools, and approaches to transform their landscapes.
As the voice of wetlands, we will make sure that they know. That is how we will multiply our direct impact many times over, benefiting many other invaluable wetland landscapes – and the societies and species that rely on them – with or without our direct involvement.