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A recognition for two Latin American projects that inspire us to keep working for wetland conservation 💚. Within the framework of the @conventiononwetlands COP15, @wwtworldwide highlighted two outstanding initiatives worldwide through its Wetland Star Awards. Watch the video on Instagram. 🇪🇨 From Ecuador, the Observatorio de Santay (@observatoriodesantay) received two Wetland Star Awards, in the…
Welcome to the latest WLI World newsletter! How was your World Wetlands Day? The theme is Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage and we see that is some of the stories in this edition. But February was also a month of flooding in part of Asia, Europe and Africa, so we send our best wishes to the WLI…
This is a special appeal from Fundacion Montecito on behalf of theirClimate Action! Support Nature Reserve in Colombia project on GlobalGiving. Help us launch the Muyso Wetlands School (MWet) at Lake Tota-anin-nature classroom that builds young guardians for wetlands. With the new Xieti Studio, where art and nature unite, this vision is already taking shape.Donate…
The Santay Observatory, a WLI-recognized Wetland Information Centre, celebrated World Environment Day with an exhibition of infographics that translated recent scientific research into accessible knowledge for all. On June 7th, in the heart of Ecuador’s Santay Island Wetland, the Santay Observatory launched a new exhibition that brings science closer to the community. The event marked…
Last Saturday, February 1st, Santay Island became the epicenter of a triple celebration that highlighted its ecological richness, commitment to education, and visual history. As part of World Wetlands Day, the community also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the creation of its primary school and the inauguration of the photographic exhibition Living Wetland: The Hidden…
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…
The workshop in Santa Cecilia, Colombia, brought students from Liceo Taller San Miguel together with kids from Afro-Colombian communities. Led by Luz Stella Tisnes Ocampo, the participants expanded their activities beyond the Danapure wetland, engaging with various communities to exchange knowledge and experiences. The journey to Santa Cecilia was more than just a…
In the natural scenery offered the DANAPURE Wetland and its trails that we are about to inaugurate, our students by FLYPER environmentalists who work on the identification of species by analyzing their songs, conducted a day of research to begin the construction of an inventory of possible species that have the wetland as a permanent…
On Thursday the 12th October we got together with Environment for the Americas and schools from Argentina and El Salvador, to share their experiences of World Migratory Bird Day, on the theme of Water. It was a great session and we heard how students had worked to create interpretative dance, social media campaigns, artwork and…
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…