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World Wetlands Day 2013

Lake Butrint, Butrint, Albania (World Heritage site and Ramsar Wetland of International Importance) © Ramsar | Ramsar
Saturday, 2 February 2013
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2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, 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.

2013 is the UN International Year for Water Cooperation and an ideal opportunity for Ramsar to look at the connection between water and wetlands. The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, called the Ramsar Convention, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. 

For more information, please visit www.ramsar.org
For a list of World Heritage sites that are also Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance, please click on the Ramsar and World Heritage sites list.

Saturday, 2 February 2013
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