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đ Registration is Now Open! Pacific Americas Flyway Youth Forum 2025 Connecting Flyway Youth for Our Shared Future November 7-9 | Online | English & Spanish | Free! The Pacific Americas Flyway-a vital lifeline connecting millions of migratory birds from the Arctic to South America-is under threat. Wetlands that sustain this incredible journey are vanishing…
Introducing the Pacific Americas Flyway Youth Forum (PAFYF) đ November 7-9, 2025 | Online From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, wetlands are vital pit stops for millions of migratory birds-and they’re vanishing fast. That’s why Youth Engaged in Wetlands (YEW), World Wetland Network, and partners are launching the Pacific Americas Flyway Youth Forum-a dynamic virtual…
At the DANAPURE Wetland in Colombia, 12th grade students and soon be university students celebrated World Biodiversity Day. They carried out expeditions through the different ecosystems that surround the DANAPURE wetland.   They now have an inventory of insects, which are part of the proposal “Habitat for the attraction and conservation of pollinators.” This proposal will be…
Thank you to the pupils and teachers of Liceo Taller San Miguel, who share their different World Wetlands Day 2024 activities. We celebrate the World Wetlands Day by building a garden in favor of the attraction and conservation of pollinators, among which we can find the Monarch butterfly, a species that in our zone is…
Dendropsophus colombianus, in moderate danger of extinction During field work, some students observed a gelatinous sack with tiny eggs in the pool. Their biology teacher, Beatriz Angel, explained that it was a mucilage that held eggs of a frog species. Because it was unlikely they would survive because of the cleaning chemicals, we decided to…
Warriors against climate change Lichens are part of the wonderful world of the FUNGI kingdom Andin our DANAPURE wetland which, due to its location in a humid and wooded area, nature has become a guide for its study.Comparing the records of previous years, we verify that its presence is less every day, being on of…
Wetland DANAPURE Colombia writes:We would like to thank you for having granted us the recognition as a Star wetland. Our commitment is growing and we hope to live up to it with our work. We share with you special moments of our celebration, in the company of the children of the UKUMARI Biopark. The students…
WLI members connected their local schools together across six countries in May 2022 to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day. Within the East Atlantic Flyway, two meetings happened. Linked by the migrating spoonbills, children in the Basque Country shared a day at the Urdaibai Bird Center with children on the Dutch island of Terschelling. They made…
See all 30 Ideas Description: The idea was to design and develop types of environmental interpretation, taking into account the audience and use of the material, either in the classroom or in the field. Biodiversity information is included in these materials as well as reference to the delivery of the management plan for the Nature…
See all 30 Ideas Title: Monarch Ambassadors, Helping to Answer the Questions. Description: To better answer questions about Cape May County’s specific role in the East Coast migration of Monarch butterflies, the Monarch Monitoring Project trained a group of Monarch Ambassadors at The Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, USA. The Monarch Ambassadors measure…