Countdown to World Wetlands Day!|CBCGDF Calls for Good Stories on Wetland Protection!
Every year on February 2, World Wetlands Day unites people around the world to celebrate and protect the value of wetlands. These important ecosystems sustain life on Earth, providing water, food, livelihoods and resilience to climate challenges.
The theme of Wetlands Day 2025 is "Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future", highlighting the need for collective action to protect wetlands, an important ecosystem for the sustainable development of the Earth.
Dr Musonda Mumba, Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands, will participate in the 2025 World Wetlands Day celebrations in Zimbabwe, highlighting Zimbabwe’s commitment to wetland conservation. Zimbabwe’s wetlands play a vital role in sustaining local communities and biodiversity, and the country has made great strides since becoming a party to the Convention in 2013.
World Wetlands Day, celebrated each year on 2 February, marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention) on 2 February 1971 in Ramsar, Iran.
Wetlands are among the world’s most diverse productive environments; cradles of biological diversity that provide the water and productivity upon which countless species of plants and animals depend for survival. Wetlands are indispensable for the countless benefits or “ecosystem services” that they provide humanity, ranging from freshwater supply, food and building materials, and biodiversity, to flood control, groundwater recharge, and climate change mitigation. Wetlands are also essential for biodiversity: though wetlands cover only around 6% of the Earth’s land surface, 40% of all plant and animal species live or breed in wetlands.
“Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future” is the theme for World Wetlands Day 2025.
The theme underscores the urgency of bold action to protect these natural habitats for the welfare of all people – and so future generations can continue to benefit from all that wetlands provide.
World Wetlands Day 2025 is of particular significance, as it this year the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (COP15)will take place. Every three years, representatives of the governments of each of the Contracting Parties meet to facilitate crucial discussions on the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands and to agree on a work program for the next three years.
Call for good stories on wetland protection!
In order to actively respond to the upcoming World Wetlands Day, we hereby call on Green Association volunteers and protected areas to send us the 2025 World Wetlands Day activities, the efforts and achievements in protecting and restoring wetlands in 2024, and the plans for wetland protection in 2025. We will help spread and report to the Ramsar Convention the wetland protection efforts of Chinese private protected areas and volunteers.
The form of the material is not limited, it can be pictures, videos or wetland protection manuscripts.
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Original Chinese Article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/M10xJTtIddXJyhn5MBTKjw
Translator: Maggie
Checked by: Daisy
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