170 News & Press Releases found
Wetlands International News
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IUCN World Conservation Congress
Date: 02/09/2021 - 12/09/2021 Venue: Online and Marseille, France We are looking forward to taking part in this year’s IUCN World Conservation Congress, driving action on nature-based recovery, climate change and biodiversity. The ...
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Reflections from World Water Week 2021: Wetlands as key to building resilience faster
In recent months the world has seen catastrophic flooding in western Europe and China, extreme heatwaves in North America, and wildfires in Russia, Greece, Turkey and the US. The Paraná River, one of the main commercial waterways in South ...
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Wetlands International welcomes the 2030 Action Targets and calls for a focus on wetlands
Wetlands International welcomes the ambitious yet highly relevant 2030 action targets calling for conservation and effective management of at least 30 percent of global land- and sea areas, especially of particular importance for biodiversity and ...
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Opinion: The genie will escape from the bottle if we don`t change our approach to nature
As a response to the latest IPCC report, the directors of IUCN NL, Tropenbos International, Wetlands International, Both ENDS and the Institute for Environmental Security wrote an op-ed about the role nature policy can and should play in ...
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Wetlands International celebrates opening of largest birdwatching centre in South America
On 12 August, 2021, the first birdwatching centre of the Iberá Wetlands was was inaugurated in Corrientes, Argentina. The international, bilingual centre is located in Ituzaingó, one of the gateways to the Iberá marshes, and is ...
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Senior Programme Developer - Building with Nature Asia
Wetlands International is the only NGO dedicated to the safeguarding and restoration of wetlands. At the heart of our vision is a plan to demonstrate whole landscape recovery in large wetland landscapes across mangroves, peatlands and freshwater ...
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Joining forces with Boskalis towards sustainable engineering
Wetlands International and Boskalis are joining hands towards enhancing sustainability in coastal and water infrastructure development. In 2020 Wetlands International and Boskalis signed an institutional partnership aimed at enhancing ...
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New report shows slowdown in mangrove losses - providing a last best chance for global action to protect coastal forests
Today the Global Mangrove Alliance released their inaugural report, The State of the World’s Mangroves, a compilation of the most current information available on what we know about mangrove forests and what’s being done to reverse the ...
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Technical Guidelines Building with Nature approach
Building with Nature integrates Nature-based Solutions into water and marine engineering practice. To make nature the fundament of the solution, a paradigm shift is needed in in all aspects of project development. One of the main barriers to ...
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Wetlands International launches new online portal for the world’s latest data on waterbird populations
On 29 June 2021, Wetlands International launched the Waterbird Populations Portal (WPP), an online interactive platform containing the most recent data on the status and distribution of the world’s waterbird populations. A well-attended global ...
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A Roadmap to address Land Subsidence for Central Java
In response to rapid land subsidence in Central Java, the Building with Nature Indonesia consortium released a Roadmap towards Adapting and Mitigating Land Subsidence in Central Java province, developed through ‘Water Dialogues’ with the ...
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Global conventions kick-start initiative to reduce peat carbon emissions in Paris
The Conventions on Biological Diversity (CBD), Wetlands (Ramsar), and Desertification (UNCCD) launched a global map of peatland hotspots at the climate summit in Paris which opened yesterday. The map shows where the most urgent action is needed to ...
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Building a better Critical Sites Network Tool – Input needed for User Survey
The Critical Sites Network tool was launched in 2010 to provide access to information about waterbird populations and their most important habitat sites. The importance of this tool is well recognised, so we are happy to announce that a new version ...
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New initiative launched to create climate resilient wetlands for waterbirds and communities
A new initiative to identify and restore critical wetlands for waterbirds flying between Europe and Africa that are vulnerable to climate change was launched by Wetlands International at the occasion of the African Eurasian Waterbird Agreement ...
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Abdoulaye Ndiaye wins international waterbird conservation award
Abdoulaye Ndiaye of Senegal is being awarded the 2015 individual Conservation Award by the African Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA). Abdoulaye was a long-time staff member of Wetlands International and currently acts as an Associate Expert. The ...
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Dutch expert team helps Philippines with coastal protection plan
Dutch experts will help the Philippines with the development of a sustainable coastal protection strategy to reduce flood risks for the cities of Tacloban and adjacent Palo in the Philippines.This should make the country more resilient to ...
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Joint paper on the Action for Biodiversity in the EU and the Fitness Check of the Birds and Habitats Directives
BatLife Europe, BirdLife Europe, Buglife-The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, Butterfly Conservation Europe, CEEweb for Biodiversity, ClientEarth, EUROPARC Federation, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), European Centre for Nature Conservation ...
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We welcome André van der Zande as the new Wetlands International Chair
We are delighted to announce the recent appointment of our new Supervisory Council and Board of Association Chair, Prof. André van der Zande. The Supervisory Council is in charge of the overall supervision of the course of affairs within ...
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Wetlands International calls for National Peatland Strategy in Indonesia to curb haze disaster
Indonesia can only curb the annual fires and haze disasters if it develops a National Peatland Conservation and Restoration Strategy, according to Wetlands International, which presented its recommendations to press today. In its position ...
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Wetlands International leads Strategic Planning for Peatlands of Mongolia
Wetlands International will work on a Strategic Plan for peatland restoration and sustainable management in Mongolia, funded by the Asian Development Bank. Mongolia’s peatlands preserve permafrost and other water reserves in high mountains ...
