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Wetlands are essential to efforts to regulate the global climate

10 December 2018
Wetlands – world’s most valuable ecosystem – disappearing three times faster than forests, warns report. Approximately 35 per cent of the world’s...

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Restored mangroves in West Africa provide multiple benefits

03 December 2018
The world’s largest mangrove reforestation project is underway in the Casamance and Sine Saloum regions of Senegal. The projects aims to plant 79...

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Nordic-baltic peatlands sequester carbon

03 December 2018
An intensive restoration of the Nordic-Baltic region’s peatlands is now taking place, with more than 20,000 hectares already restored. The...

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Coral reefs in Southeast Asia blunt tsunami's

03 December 2018
As coral reefs are dying from rising ocean temperatures, increasing ocean acidity, and direct human damage, their importance to local communities...

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Wetlands cushion North America's coastlines from extreme weather

02 December 2018
In 2012 Hurricane Sandy slammed into the eastern seaboard of the United States, inflicting damage in 24 states. If not for coastal wetlands, the...

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Strengthening Local Communities in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

12 November 2018
Tonle Sap Great Lake is a unique wetland. Each year, a combination of heavy rains and the flooding of the Mekong River, which reverses the flow of...

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Reducing Risk by Learning from practice in Banten Bay, Indonesia

09 November 2018
Banten Bay, on the north-west tip of Java, is home to a range of natural resources, including fish ponds, boundary rivers, rice paddies, the sea,...

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People Power: Wetland communities help reduce the tragic effects of natural hazards

08 November 2018
Local communities and indigenous peoples play a powerful, if often overlooked, role in maintaining our wetland ‘natural infrastructure' and in...

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Capturing Rain Where it Falls: Building Sand Dams Across Dry River Beds in the Thar Desert, India

05 November 2018
The Indian Thar Desert has an extreme environment. Temperatures reach 50°C in summer, ground water is extremely saline, average annual rainfall is...

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Building with Nature for safe, prosperous and adaptive coastlines

05 November 2018
On the long term 30 Million people suffer from coastal flooding and erosion hazards in Northern Java, affecting 3000 villages. The problems largely...

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Mangrove forests enhance rice cropland resilience to tropical cyclones: evidence from the Bhitarkanika Conservation Area

01 November 2018
According to theory, mangrove forests act as a buffer to protect inland areas from tropical cyclone damage. The Bhitarkanika Conservation Area...

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A place for people and wildlife lake indawgyi, myanmar

03 October 2018
Located in northern Myanmar, Indawgyi Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in Myanmar. On 2 February 2016 , World Wetlands Day, it was...

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Sustainable livelihoods and saving the lake urmia in iran

02 October 2018
Water shortages normally leads to water allocation rivalry and natural ecosystems -  initially wetlands - usually suffer when in competition with...

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Hinuma lake Japan: sustainable livelihoods in practice

01 October 2018
The recently designated Ramsar site of Hinuma Lake, exemplifies how the sustainable management of the local population is preserving the rich flora...

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