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« on: January 27, 2011, 05:08:55 pm »

February 2 each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the
Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores
of the Caspian Sea.

Each year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organisations, and groups
of citizens at all levels of the community have taken advantage of the opportunity to
undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits in
general and the Ramsar Convention in particular.
Wetlands and Forests, this is the theme for World Wetlands Day 2011, especially chosen
because 2011 is the UN International Year of Forests.
Our slogan is simple - Forests for water and wetlands - allowing us to look at the ‘big
picture’ of forests in our lives, including:

* Forested wetlands and the special benefits they bring. Mangroves, peatswamp forests,
freshwater swamp forests: biologically diverse, helping us manage our freshwater, and
providing us with many other ‘services’ across the globe including vital roles in carbon
storage - our allies in the face of climate change. Despite their utility, they are often under
threat from development, from drainage and conversion.

* The role of forests - wet or not - in our lives, and why looking after them matters. Vital to
all human lives, freshwater availability on a global scale depends on our forests. So too, to
a large extent, does freshwater quality.

* The role of forests in how our wetlands function. It’s simple: the health of our wetlands,
whether forested or not, is linked to the health of forests in our catchments. Losing and
degrading forests means losing and degrading wetlands.

* We cannot manage without forests, whether terrestrial forests or forested wetlands, given
the critical roles that they play in our lives - for water, for food, for livelihoods, for
recreation and more.
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