Wetlands for life
World Wetland Network supported our colleagues at RamsarNet Japan and Korean Wetlands NGO Network to prepare a proposal on wetland conservation for consideration at the Asian Wetlands Symposium held in Saga, Japan on 6 – 11 November 2017. The statement addresses concerns about infrastructure development projects which stop the flow of waterways and reclaim tidal […]
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WWN’s Regional Representative, Minoru Kashiwagi, played a significant role organising the meeting, and Lou Duff represented WWN in her role as Chair of WWN. Wetland conservation and alignment with the Ramsar Convention is very strong in South Korea. Ramsar COP 10 was held in Changwon in 2008. The NGO leaders who instigated the COP are
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WWN Committee members Louise Duff and Minoru Kashiwagi joined an international delegation of conservationists who toured the Nakdong River, South Korea to celebrate World Rivers Day. Nakdong River is the longest river in South Korea. It was regulated with a series of weirs and an estuary dam as part of the Four Rivers Project from
Thank you for registering as a member of the World Wetland Network (WWN). World Wetland Network aims to give Non-Government Organisations, Civil Society Organisations and community groups a voice in wetland conservation and implementation of the Ramsar Convention. Following a review of our membership we now have 130 member organisations representing more than 380,000 individuals.
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Monday, June 19, 2017 at 4:36 PM The Asian Wetland Symposium is held every two years, to bring together wetland scientists and practitioners from across the Asia Region. The AWS commitee is working to prepare for their conference which will take place from the 4th to the 10th of November this year. There are opportunities to submit
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Some of the WWN Committee members met in Nagoya, Japan at the end of October at a meeting organised by RamsarNet Japan and South Korean colleagues. It gave us the chance to update on WWN’s activities, as well as to start planning for activities leading up to the next Ramsar COP. The group reviewed our
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Popularly called Freedom Islands, the Las Piñas – Paranaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LLPCHEA) in the Philippines is a wonderful site composed of Freedom and Long islands. It in fact resembles a bird spreading its wings in this Google Map. Adding to its wonder are the 80 migratory and resident birds such as the
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