World Wetlands Day | 2 February

World Wetlands Day was first celebrated in 1997. Ever since federal government firms, non-government organizations and also area teams have actually celebrated World Wetlands Day by carrying out activities to elevate public understanding of marsh worths and also advantages as well as advertise the preservation and also sensible use wetlands. These tasks consist of workshops, nature strolls, events, statements of brand-new Ramsar websites, news articles, radio meetings and also marsh rehab.

World Wetlands Day 2019

The worldwide motif for World Wetlands Day 2019 is ‘Wetlands and also climate change’. This motif will certainly be mirrored in the February 2019 version of Wetlands Australia.

Wetlands can be prone to climate change, being affected by adjustments in temperature level, rains, water level rise and also severe occasions. Wetlands can likewise play a crucial function in our strategy to climate change reduction as well as adjustment, via saving as well as recording carbon to minimize climatic greenhouse gases, and also supplying strength to threats such as flooding, tornado surge as well as water level rise.

Resources

The Ramsar Convention Secretariat has actually developed a variety of downloadable World Wetlands Day materials for 2019, including posters, an infographic, a PowerPoint discussion, truth sheets as well as a tee logo design. These materials can be discovered on the Ramsar Convention Secretariat’s World Wetlands Day 2019 web site. Individuals and also teams are motivated to adjust these materials for their very own World Wetlands Day occasions as well as tasks throughout the year.