Add your story

Tell us your story

Read the Privacy Policy

 

Image See more

Call for Wetland Decade under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030)

22 March 2019
The environmental health of our wetlands across the world is deteriorating. The authoritative Global Wetland Outlook released by the Ramsar...

See more
Image See more

Nature-Based Solutions Offer Best Investment for Flood Protection

15 February 2019
A growing body of evidence shows wetlands and reefs reduce flooding and erosion in adjacent communities.

See more
Image See more

Celebrating 10 years of achievements in rehabilitating the North Selangor Peat Swamp Forest

14 February 2019
Nearly 200 hectares of this peat swamp forest was successfully restored and enriched the degraded area with more than 115,000 pioneer and...

See more
Image See more

Flourishing mangrove greenbelt protects vulnerable coastal communities in Bangladesh

08 February 2019
In a bid to increase natural protection for vulnerable residents, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), together with Bangladesh’s Forest...

See more
Image See more

Wetlands Give Life: Preserving Uganda’s wetlands secures a brighter future for country and planet

06 February 2019
Wetlands are an important natural buffer in mitigating, forestalling, and adapting to climate change. By absorbing and storing carbon, wetlands...

See more
Image See more

Wetlands are a Natural Solution to Climate Change

29 January 2019
The science is clear. Wetlands are the most effective carbon sinks on our planet. The Paris climate change agreement recognizes the role wetlands...

See more
Image See more

We desperately need to store more carbon – seagrass could be the answer

11 January 2019
According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to avoid a climate change catastrophe....

See more
Image See more

Improve peatland management to protect climate

09 January 2019
Bogs, mires, moors, muskegs, peatlands serve as carbon sinks, comprising more than half of all wetlands worldwide and equal to 3 percent of total...

See more
Image See more

Damaged peatlands contribute to carbon emissions

11 December 2018
Europe must learn from Indonesia's restoration of its peatlands if we are to cut agricultural carbon emissions.

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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,...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more
Image See more

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...

See more