february 2----- World Wetlands Day
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- Wetlands are land areas that are saturated or flooded with water either permanently or seasonally.
- Inland wetlands include marshes, ponds, lakes, fens, rivers, floodplains, and swamps.
- Coastal wetlands include saltwater marshes, estuaries, mangroves, lagoons and even coral reefs.
- Fishponds, rice paddies, and saltpans are human-made wetlands.
- We celebrate World Wetlands Day (WWD) to raise global awareness about the high importance of wetlands for people and our planet.
- WWD is also an occasion to commemorate the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971.
- Wetlands are often described as “kidneys of the landscape”.
- The theme of WWD 2021 is “Wetlands and Water”.
- The role wetlands play in:
- clean water
- water supply
- ecosystem resilience
- sustainable livelihoods and jobs
- biodiversity conservation
- storm protection
- carbon storage
- climate change adaptation
- health and well-being
- tourism and recreation
- Conserving wetlands brings us measurably closer to finding solutions to some of the country’s greatest threats, including water pollution, flooding, sea-level rise and biodiversity loss.
Wetlands are nature’s gift to humanity and we must realize its importance before it’s too late
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