Wetlands for life
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 […]
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 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
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Under the theme ‘Taking off #ForNature from Africa to the Arctic’ young people from over 30 countries have come together for the first East Atlantic Flyway Youth Forum. This Flyway Youth Forum explored challenges that migratory birds and their wetlands habitats are facing and discussed how greater communication and cooperation between youth and across generations can
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Youth Engaged in Wetlands and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership have run the Flyway Youth Forum and produced a Declaration. Over two weekends between November and December, 2020, 134 attendees, including 87 selected youth leaders from 26 countries or regions, 28 trainers, speakers and facilitators participated in the virtual event. Young people were connected and
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by Youth Engaged in Wetlands Youth Engaged in Wetlands (YEW), is a growing international youth team committed to the conservation, protection, and wise-use of wetlands. YEW aims to support the mission of Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and build greater ownership of this mission among the younger generations. To meet their mission of providing a global
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The current and previous head of Youth Ramsar Japan, Takuma Satoh and Atushi Tanabe respectively, have visited the Slimbridge Wetland Centre in the UK. Maximising their time in Europe at the Ramsar Standing Committee meeting, they then went to the UK to meet WWN Deputy Chief Chris Rostron and colleagues. Takuma Satoh writes: This was
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Following their closing statement to Ramsar’s 13th Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP13) in October 2018, the Youth Engaged in Wetlandsare continuing to engage with the Ramsar convention. Joining in the 57th meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee thanks to the generous support of Youth Ramsar Japan, they have been getting good support from national
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In October 2018 the conservation world looked to the tri-ennial meeting of Ramsar, the Wetlands Convention, which happened in Dubai. We went there with a momentum that started strong and got even stronger! Our main activities were: NGO Pre-COP Meeting NGO Opening Statement Youth Forum and visioning workshop Youth closing statement WWN Exhibition Stand and
World Wetland Network supported the Youth Engaged in Wetlands team to make a statement during the closing plenary at Ramsar COP13. The YEW team called on the parties to fully commit to implementation of the resolutions, and to involve youth in policy making and implementation of the convention. Their statement proposed the theme for Ramsar COP 14 as Youth
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