World Wetlands Day
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World Wetlands Day is an environmentally related
World Wetlands Day is celebrated on the second day of February every year, though it was not celebrated until 1997.
Over time, human construction has led to various ecological problems affecting wetlands. Overpopulation and construction has led to a decrease in environmental conservation. Many wetlands are being lost and ecologists claim that human should recognise the dilemma before a natural filter and conserver of the world is lost.[4]
Partnership
Since 1998, the Ramsar Secretariat has partnered with
World Wetlands Day Youth Photo Contest
Starting in 2015, a month-long Wetlands Youth Photo Contest that starts on 2 February was introduced as a part of a new approach to target young people and get them involved in WWD. People between ages 15 through 24 can take a picture of a certain wetland and upload it to the World Wetlands Day website between the months of February and March.[6]
Since 1997 the Ramsar website has posted reports from about 100 countries of their WWD activities. In 2016 a map of events was introduced to help countries promote their activities and to facilitate reporting after WWD.[2]
World Wetlands Day themes
Each year a theme is selected to focus attention and help raise public awareness about the value of wetlands. Countries organize a variety of events to raise awareness such as; lectures, seminars, nature walks, children's art contests, sampan races, community clean-up days, radio and television interviews, letters to newspapers, to the launch of new wetland policies, new Ramsar Sites and new programs at the national level.
The theme for World Wetlands Day in 2023 is expected to be "Wetlands Restoration" and it will based on the
2023 | It's time for wetland restoration |
2022 | Wetlands action for people and nature |
2021 | Wetlands and water |
2020 | Wetlands and Biodiversity |
2019 | Wetlands and Climate Change |
2018 | Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future |
2017 | Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction |
2016 | Wetlands For Our Future: Sustainable Livelihoods |
2015 | Wetlands For Our Future |
2014 | Wetlands and Agriculture: Partners for Growth |
2013 | Wetlands Take Care of Water |
2012 | Wetland Tourism: A great experience |
2011 | Forests for water and wetlands |
2010 | Caring for wetlands – An answer to climate change |
2009 | Upstream, Downstream: Wetlands connect us all |
2008 | Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People |
2007 | Fish for tomorrow? |
2006 | Livelihoods at Risk |
2005 | There's Wealth in Wetland Diversity – Don't Lose It |
2004 | From the mountains to the sea – Wetlands at work for us |
2003 | No wetlands – no water |
2002 | Wetlands : Water life and culture |
2001 | A wetland world – A world to discover |
2000 | Celebrating our wetlands of international importance |
1999 | People and wetlands – the vital link |
1998 | Importance of water to life & role of wetlands in water supply |
1997 | WWD celebrated for the first time |
External links
References
- ^ a b c "Home - WorldWetlandsDay". www.worldwetlandsday.org.
- ^ a b c "World Wetlands Day | Ramsar". www.ramsar.org.
- ^ "World Wetlands Day". www.environment.gov.au.
- ^ "Education & Outreach". www.sws.org.
- ^ "Contacts". www.ramsar.org.
- ^ "February 2nd: World Wetlands Day | WWF". wwf.panda.org. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
- ^ "World Wetlands Day". ramsar.org.