Wetlands for life
The approach How long you’ve been running it Twenty-four years Actors The local Corporación JUMAPACOM Manglares Don Goyo which unites seven legal associations of small artisanal crabbers and traditional near shores fishers which represent six ancestral mangrove islands ancestral communities. – Fundación Cerro Verde – Schutzwald e.V. And for the new implementation plan (2024-2025) additionally: […]
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The approach To achieve the project objectives we have the organization of workshops, meetings, advocacy, community work, reforestation and restoration activities, sensitization of riparian communities, organization of radio and television programs with the community, indigenous peoples and the state. How it’s going In the Democratic Republic of Congo, wetlands are disappearing five times faster than
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By Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan The approach How long you’ve been running it Nineteen years Actors Fishers, Farmers, Tour enterprises, Local Self govts., Teachers & students, Line Departments. Objectives To identify and develop local capacity and institutional networks for participatory integrated management of the heavily used estuaries of India. How it’s going Challenges Connections to the
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In April 2025 we held two online workshops by Zoom, using an online whiteboard to share and gather basic information. Fourteen workshop participants intend to be at COP15 in person. In particular Youth Engaged in Wetlands has received funding boosts to provide travel and accommodation for five people. WWN will operate a WhatsApp broadcast list
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WWN’s Latin American & Caribbean Regional Representative María Elisa Sánchez has made two great videos introducing Convention on Wetlands COP, especially for people hoping to attend. Maríá Elisa spoke to Tafadzwa Kurotwi of Emerald Climate Hub, Chris Rostron of MedWet, and Dylan Jones of the Australian Government, and others, creating both a short summary and
The Convention on Wetlands has interim meetings between COPs, of the Standing Committee. This year’s Standing Committee meeting 63 was in Gland, Switzerland, in June 2024. Co-Chair of WWN, Chris Rostron, was present. Topics of discussion included the Convention’s next Strategic Plan, and CEPA (Communications, Education, Participation, Awareness). There is likely to be a new
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Wetlands COP15 is to be hosted by Zimbabwe at the town of Victoria Falls, in the last week of July 2025. It will be followed five months later by UNFCCC COP 29 in Baku, and may be a useful input to that for IOPs and WWN members, especially in Central Asia. We held two visioning workshops
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A new role was created at the last wetland COP: Youth Focal Point. The Youth Focal Point can be from government or civil society. We hope you feel able to contact your National Focal Points and encourage them to appoint someone. This may be a young person in your NGO. If the government appoints one
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The next Conference of Parties to the Convention on Wetlands, COP15, will be held in July 2025 in Zimbabwe. WWN will start preparations with an online workshop on 16 April 2024. Register for 07.00 UTC, 16 April 2024 (timezone converter here). Register for 16.00 UTC, 16 April 2024 (timezone converter here). We invite WWN members
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Dr Jacky Judas has stepped down as Chairperson of WWN, handing over to two joint-Chairpersons. Agatha Chisa and Chris Rostron will take over, with Agatha focusing on the route to Ramsar COP15 in Zimbabwe, and Chris will handle the other aspects of the Chairperson role. Jacky started as Chairperson in February 2021; he will stay
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