The International Investment Bank provided us with the second grant for execution of a project on restoring peatlands in Russia. On June 4, 2018, Nikolay […]

The connections between women and wetlands matter for peace and security. This lab debate at the European Development Days in Brussels will look at how […]

A showcase in a UN building in Bonn, Germany, can be good for waterbirds across Africa and Eurasia. We have done just that to launch our Critical Sites Network tool version 2.0.

Did you know that the answer can be found in nature? Nature-based solutions such as restoring mangrove buffers in degraded coastal areas or preserving peatlands […]

A side-event at the UNFCCC SB48 in Bonn about how water crises, particularly in the Sahel, are displacing people. This event contributes to and presents the work of the Task Force on Displacement created at COP21.

Under the programme, Partners for Resilience (PfR) led by Wetlands International South Asia, a case study on sustainable community-based disaster risk management - Responding to emergencies, A PfR perspective - was selected as one among the best practices in Asia by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC). This case was submitted under the programme Institutionalizing Sustainable Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM).

For a three weeks in March 2018 we surveyed waterbirds almost continuously in the coastal wetlands of Barr Al Hikman, Oman. By day we counted […]

On 27–28 March a national seminar was held in Jakarta on the urgent issue of land subsidence in coastal lowlands which is increasingly affecting coastal […]

Addressing freshwater ambitions explicitly through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) provides a key entry-point for countries to emphasise the importance of freshwater strategies for adapting to […]

March 22nd is World Water Day. This year’s theme is ‘The answer is in nature’. Over the last decade The Netherlands has gained a lot […]