Wetlands for life
Back in 2008, at COP10 in Changwon, South Korea, I worked with a bunch of NGOs and civil society representatives to set up the World Wetland Network. Previous COPs had had civil society engagement, but not organised and without much recognition from contracting parties or the secretariat. WWN is still going strong 16 years later, […]
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WWN member FORED (Forum des Engagés pour le Développement Durable) in the Democratic Republic of Congo reports on activities since May 2024. All three were aimed at mobilising and raising awareness among local leaders. There are still seven other chiefdoms for us to build awareness in, in order to cover the eight bordering Lake Albert and
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The Convention on Wetlands has opened nominations for the 2024 Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards. WWN members may be interested in nominating themselves. There are three categories: The deadline is 30 September 2024. Find out more and make a nomination on the Convention website.
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This symposium provides a regional platform for the discussion of mainstreaming wetland conservation and wise use across all sectors of the society as a contribution to the implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and its strategic plan, achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the action-oriented global targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity
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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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In accordance with our Terms of Reference, WWN is recruiting a new Deputy Chairperson. Current Co-Chairperson, Chris Rostron, is leaving his wetland NGO job to lead a Ramsar Regional Initiative, so will step down from his role. If you are interested in the role, please contact your Regional Representative. Over the coming months, the Committee
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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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The Wetland City Network Secretariat is holding a webinar to promote and share the activities of accredited Wetland Cities. The Accreditation is a great CEPA method, and worth considering for WWN members to approach their local mayors or governments. The Wetland City Network Secretariat writes: We are happy to invite you to a Webinar on
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The 10th Asian Wetland Symposium is accepting abstracts and registrations on the theme ‘Wetland-based Solutions’. AWS 2024 specifically aims to: Symposium structure AWS 2024 is a four-day event consisting of keynote presentations, plenary sessions, parallel sessions, side events, poster sessions, and a field trip to the three wetland areas in the Philippines: the Candaba Wetlands;
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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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