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What Are Wetlands?

Wetlands occur where water meets land. They include mangroves, peatlands and marshes, rivers and lakes, deltas, floodplains and flooded forests, rice-fields, and even coral reefs. Wetlands exist in every country and in every climatic zone, from the polar regions to the tropics, and from high altitudes to dry regions. Read more...

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Species

Wetlands are home to a rich abundance of animal and plant life. From mangrove forests filled with estuarine crocodiles, proboscis monkeys, mudskippers, to peatlands of […]

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Healthy Wetland Nature

Healthy wetlands are essential for water and sanitation, for their role in providing water for drinking and sanitation services and for waste filtration. In arid […]

AEWA 2015 Award for the conservation of birds – Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye and AIV Ndiaël honored this morning in Bonn

Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye and the Inter-Villager Association (AIV) of Ndiaël, all from Senegal, received this Monday, November 9, 2015 in Bonn, the prestigious 2015 Award […]

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Bonn, Germany / 2015 AEWA Waterbird Conservation Award – The Inter Villager Association of Ndiaël, a Partner and Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye a former staff of Wetlands International get award

The Inter Villager Association (AIV) of Ndiaël and Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye are the AEWA 2015 award winners, respectively in institutional and the individual category for […]

Praia, Cape Verde / 8th Forum of the PRCM – Wetlands International’s CEO calls for a consideration of climate change in the conservation of wetlands

Wetlands International actively participated in the opening of the 8th edition of the marine and coastal regional forum of the PRCM currently on course in […]

Senegal / Gambia / Capacity building for migratory birds site managers

Wetlands International will train late October 2015 selected leaders of both countries on the management of sites by the flyway approach. Wetlands International through the […]

Sustainable management of mangroves in Africa – Wetlands International and IUCN work on a Regional Programme

Under the support of the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of Coastal and Marine Zone in West Africa (PRCM), Wetlands International and the International Union […]

How can we ensure water security for all?

Wetlands International will be speaking about this issue at the upcoming Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. The Clinton Global Initiative was established in 2005 by […]