Wetlands for life
The Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia (RRC-EA) is now accepting project proposals for funding support under the RRC-EA Wetland Fund 2024. Wetland advocates from the region are invited to apply for small grants in line with the following thematic areas: The call will close on 10 November 2023. Find out more on the RRC-EA …
What Ramsar Resolutions is your work helping to implement? We are preparing a side event at the next COP as well as a report on how civil society implements the Wetlands Convention within the following themes: To ensure that our report reflects the diverse and impactful work being done, we kindly request your participation in …
WWN member FORED contacted us with the following news: The FORED organisation launched the “STOP EACOP” campaign last June. In the course of this week, we moved on to awareness-raising activities to gain a better understanding of TotalEnérgie’s EACOP oil project in Uganda so that these communities could get involved in the fight, a campaign …
Our friends at the Whitley Fund for Nature have announced the next round of the Whitley Awards for: WWN member Leonard Akwany at Ecofinder in Kenya was a winner in 2023! The Whitley Fund for Nature writes: Do you know a wildlife conservationist who is making an impact in their home country, and for whom …
News update from WWT: WWT is pleased to announce the launch of our pilot Foundation Course in Wetland Health and Vitality, part of our 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. We would be very grateful if …
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WWN member Ecofinder won a prestigious Whitley Award for Nature, working on conservation of native freshwater fish. WWN deputy chair Chris Rostron met Leonard Akwany at an NGO networking meeting hosted by Whitley Fund for Nature in London on the 27th April, alongside the other winners. Great to see a WWN member achieving global recognition …
Youth Engaged in Wetlands (YEW) have published a report on November’s Ramsar COP14. The report introduces the why and the how of Ramsar COP in general, and reports on their accomplishments at this particular COP. COP14 was a huge step forward for the inclusion of Youth in the Ramsar Convention. Thus, we felt the need …
The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands has published the final texts of the Resolutions at Ramsar COP14, from November 2022. This page lists download links to the individual Resolutions in English, French, and Spanish. Those of particular interest to WWN are: Resolution XIV.8: The new CEPA approach Resolution XIV.12 Strengthening Ramsar connections through youth …
Our participation at Ramsar COP14 was diverse and energising. We engaged on all our target themes: youth; participatory science; and natural flow of rivers. We delivered an NGO Statement to the COP during the closing. This reflects the new Resolutions and plans expressed by the countries, with our stance on behalf of NGOs, to encourage …
WWN’s joint North American Representative, Professor Kim Diana Connolly, has delivered an NGO Statement to Ramsar COP14 in Geneva and Wuhan. The statement celebrates some of this COP’s innovations, such as livestreaming all sessions and enabling NGOs to livestream their side-events, which enabled wider NGO participation. The Statement encourages the countries who have signed up …
