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Wetlands International is the only global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands. We are concerned by the rapid loss and deterioration […]

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Wetlands

Wetlands are often viewed as wasteland: places to be drained and converted for development and other land uses. Since 1900 more than 64% of wetlands have […]

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What Are Wetlands?

Wetlands occur where water meets land. They include mangroves, peatlands and marshes, rivers and lakes, deltas, floodplains and flooded forests, rice-fields, and even coral reefs. Wetlands exist in every country and in every climatic zone, from the polar regions to the tropics, and from high altitudes to dry regions. Read more...

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Species

Wetlands are home to a rich abundance of animal and plant life. From mangrove forests filled with estuarine crocodiles, proboscis monkeys, mudskippers, to peatlands of […]

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Healthy Wetland Nature

Healthy wetlands are essential for water and sanitation – for their role in providing water for drinking, sanitation services and waste filtration. In arid and […]

AEWA 2015 Award for the conservation of birds – Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye and AIV Ndiaël honored this morning in Bonn

Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye and the Inter-Villager Association (AIV) of Ndiaël, all from Senegal, received this Monday, November 9, 2015 in Bonn, the prestigious 2015 Award […]

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Bonn, Germany / 2015 AEWA Waterbird Conservation Award – The Inter Villager Association of Ndiaël, a Partner and Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye a former staff of Wetlands International get award

The Inter Villager Association (AIV) of Ndiaël and Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye are the AEWA 2015 award winners, respectively in institutional and the individual category for […]