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Mangrove Forest Fighting Climate Change

Posted by jackckirby on Monday, 02 December 2013 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Mangrove forests are one of the most important weapons in the fight against climate change. Not only do they directly store huge amounts of carbon, but they actively capture additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester it in their soils. When mangroves are destroyed, huge quantities o...

Protecting the Worlds Wetlands

Posted by jennystorie on Tuesday, 19 November 2013 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

The culmination of the five-year project has been the development of an integrated action planning toolkit on wetland conservation and management, which can be adapted to help provide bespoke solutions to protect valuable ecosystems around the globe. Launched today at events in China, India and Vie...

Fish Traders Get Wise to Wetland Conservation

Posted by miguel on Wednesday, 14 August 2013 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Mopti — At the noisy market in Mali's central city of Mopti, 49-year-old Alimatou Maiga complains about how hard it is to find big fish for sale these days. Extracting a dried fish from a dish full of others, Maiga said supplies have become less plentiful even though the region is Mali's main sourc...

World and Nat’l Wetlands Day

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

MANILA, Philippines — The country joins in the global celebration of World Wetlands Day (WWD) today in commemoration of the day in 1971 when the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, was adopted in Ramsar City, Iran. Organized by t...

Happy World Wetlands Day

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Feb. 2 is World Wetlands Day, a holiday that has promoted global appreciation and protection of wetlands for 41 years. It commemorates an international treaty signed in 1971, the Ramsar Convention, that aims to conserve swamps, marshes and bogs around the world, from Albania to Mexico to Zambia. &n...