This article was originally published on Context,Thomson Reuters Foundation on February 2nd, 2023.   World Wetlands Day reminds us how ecosystems like peatlands, mangroves and […]

World Wetlands Day is celebrated on 2 February every year. It also marks the anniversary of the Convention on Wetlands, which was adopted as an […]

Wetlands International welcomes the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Agreement adopted by 196 countries under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, committing the world to halting […]

Wetlands are disproportionately important for biodiversity and need to be at the heart of the global biodiversity framework and countries’ plans for delivery. Wetlands – both […]

Wetlands are some of the most productive engines of the planet’s biodiversity: less celebrated than rainforests, perhaps, yet of equal worth. In South America, the […]

Although now only accounting for around 6% of the Earth’s surface area, wetlands sustain a disproportionately high diversity of life, with approximately 40% of all […]

Whilst the UN climate conference was getting underway in Egypt two weeks ago, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands held its own Conference of Parties, where […]

In September this year a third of Pakistan was under water as melting glaciers and record monsoon rains coursed down the River Indus. Today millions […]

November 12th, 2022, Ramsar COP14 Closing statement from the IOPs on the importance of protecting and conserving Ramsar sites, and meeting our global goals on […]