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World Wetlands Day on 2 February 2026 will be themed on Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage. The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands has prepared and presented the official website and materials for World Wetlands Day: Next year’s campaign centres on the theme “Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage.” The campaign spotlights…
The Wetland City Network Secretariat is holding a webinar to promote and share the activities of accredited Wetland Cities. The Accreditation is a great CEPA method! The Secretariat writes: We are happy to invite you to a Webinar on Wetland City Accreditation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands which will be held on 22 May 2024…
Most WLI members work with young people, connecting them to everything that makes a wetland. There is a new way to empower young people in wetlands: Youth Focal Points to the Convention on Wetlands. Put simply, every country in the Convention should nominate a person aged under 35 to represent them. This is relatively new,…
Every country within the Convention on Wetlands has two official roles which connect people like you, carrying out wetland education, to the national government and the wetlands COP (Conference of the Parties). These roles are National Focal Points for CEPA (Communications, Capacity, Education, Participation, Awareness); one in a government role, one non-governmental. WLI members and…
Dr Musonda Mumba, Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands, and Flore Lafaye de Micheaux, Europe Senior Regional Advisor for the Convention, visited WWT in London on the 6th and 7th of February. They visited the London Wetland Centre, where Dr Mumba had volunteered when she studied in London during the early 1990s. Pictured here…
The Head of WLI, Chris Rostron, is at the Standing Committee meeting of the Convention on Wetlands, in Gland, Switzerland. He is helping develop the CEPA approach within the Convention. Some of you participated in the online workshops we held before the last Wetland Convention COP late last year, so you as WLI members are…
WWT is pleased to announce the launch of our first Foundation Course in Wetland Health and Vitality, part of the developing Wetland Learning Hub. The online learning platform is aimed at early career professionals or those that want to develop their understanding of wetland conservation. WWT is looking for 50 wetland people to help to…
‘It’s time for wetland restoration‘ is the slogan for World Wetlands Day 2023. Whether in-person, online, or via media, World Wetlands Day provides an opportunity to engage new people or familiar faces on a new topic. Materials The Ramsar Convention’s Secretariat has already provided rich materials you can use free of charge, on the World…
Congratulations to the 23 WLI members who have today been announced as Star Wetland Centres! The Head of WLI, Chris Rostron, announced the winners at Ramsar COP14 in Geneva, Switzerland on 9 November 2022. The 23 winners have shown excellence according to their means in wetland Communication, Education, Participation, and Awareness (CEPA). They each receive…
Young people are key stakeholders to wetland conservation and many of them are taking actions. We are creating an extraordinary virtual event on Gather.Town for all youth participants to showcase their work, share ideas and interact with each other around the world during Ramsar COP14 held from 5th to 13th November, 2022. In this virtual event…