Annual Review
WLI’s Review of 2025 A summary of WLI staff and volunteers’ activities in 2025 Download PDF of Annual Review 2025 Wetlands COP15 COP15 in some ways dominated 2025, with lots of preparation in the first 6 months, and reflection on the connections made and the resolutions agreed in the second half. WWT was involved in…
WLI’s Review of 2024 A summary of WLI staff and volunteers’ activities in 2024 Download PDF of Annual Review 2024 End of an era! Chris Rostron, Head of WLI for 16 years, moved on to lead the Ramsar Regional Initiative for the Mediterranean, MedWet. Read his farewell message and see a selection of photos over…
A summary of WLI staff and volunteers’ activities in 2023 Download PDF of Annual Review 2023 Small Grants launch and awards In 2023, WLI launched its first global grant scheme for members of the network. International law firm Eversheds Sutherland funded the scheme. The WLI core team assessed seventeen applications, and six WLI members were…
A summary of WLI staff and volunteers’ activities in 2022. Download PDF of Annual Review 2022 Star Wetland Centre Awards Early in 2022, 50 wetland visitor centres applied for the WLI Star Wetland Centre Awards, and in November we awarded 23 Stars. A panel of judges who had designed the awards also discussed the applications,…
Download PDF of Annual Review 2021 A summary of WLI staff and interns’ activities in 2021. 30th Anniversary In 2021 we marked 30 years since WLI was founded. It is a great achievement, and we are very grateful for all the support and project activities across our member centres and partners. Most of our celebration…
Download PDF of Annual Review 2020 The pandemic disrupted almost all work at WWT Slimbridge, where the Head of WLI Chris Rostron, Connor Walsh, and the International Engagement intern Adil Boulahia are based. After a short time working from home, Chris and Connor were placed in a government furlough scheme, meaning they were not able…
Here’s a summary of the WLI staff and interns’ activities in 2019. Chris Rostron was invited by national NGO, Ramsar France, to participate in their flagship World Wetlands Day event. The WLI colleagues at the Lac du Grand Lieu hosted the event, with 125 guests taking part, including Ramsar Association France, the CEPA focal point…
Migratory Birds Day, May 2017 Connecting Birds and Schools project. We facilitated 6 schools and wetland centres to take part, with a final skype conference call between three of the schools. WLI internship: Our intern, Patricio Guerrero from Chile, started in June, replacing our previous intern Abdallah Khazene. Chilean exchange partners came to…