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Better use of water of the Inner Niger Delta in a changing climate

This video shows images from the Inner Niger Delta in Mali, Africa and interviews with local farmers and fishermen andwomen on how the water of […]

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Policy paper for the UN-FCCC meeting in Accra, August 2008

In this paper, Wetlands International presents its agenda for the new climate treaty that is being discussed in Accra, Ghana (August 2008). The paper focuses […]

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Question and Answer factbook on peatlands

This booklet provides you with a all the most recent facts and figures about peatlands, with a focus on tropical peatlands. Subjects that are explained […]

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Solving conflicts over water scarcity in the Kimana Wetlands, Kenya

In East and Sub Saharan Africa, availability of water is the single most critical factor for the survival of people. Wetlands in these regions are […]

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Advise to the Contracting Parties of CBD COP 9

This paper presents our views on the issues on the agenda of the Convention of Biological Diversity, COP 9, in Bonn, May 2008. Wetlands International […]

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Wetlands supporting livelihoods in Malawi and Zambia

A film by Wetlands International that shows the importance of wise use of dambos (seasonally flooded grasslands) in Central Southern Africa, for the communities that […]

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Submission to the UN-FCCC on wetlands and climate change

This is the submission of Wetlands International to the “Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the Convention”; the working group working on […]

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Peatland Alert: peatland loss fuels climate change

Short movie in which NGO Wetlands International alerts that the destruction of the world’s peatlands leads to huge CO2 emissions and that it is therefore […]

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Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People

On 8 November 2007 the People’s Government of Shaoxing City hosted a symposium, organised by Wetlands International, entitled ‘Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People’. The opening sessions […]