2 Feb 2024

Urban wetlands improving the wellbeing of city dwellers

by | posted in: News | 0

There is growing evidence that urban wetlands play a role not only in protecting cities from hazards such as flooding and mitigating the effects of climate change, but that they also play a critical role in positive mental health impacts and overall human wellbeing. Nowhere is this most evident as in the metropolis of Colombo in Sri Lanka where the wetlands are fundamental to the wellbeing of the 2.3 million residents, particularly the urban poor, with 60% of households directly … Read More
18 Aug 2023

What is a Rights of Wetlands approach?

by | posted in: News | 0

The drive for economic growth, based on unbridled consumerism, continues to dominate wetland use and associated biodiversity loss, with existing strategies for wetland conservation failing. Up to 87% of global wetlands have been lost, contributing to an average decline of 84% in freshwater species populations and 36% decline in coastal/marine species populations since 1970. Biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and climate destabilisation constitute connected global emergencies that worsen poverty, and now require transformative approaches, including ethical/legal paradigm shifts. Rights of Nature … Read More
2 Feb 2021

Guyana’s biodiversity global hotspot – the North Rupununi Wetlands

by | posted in: News | 0

  To celebrate the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands – World Wetlands Day 2021 we are highlighting one of the world’s least known but incredibly important wetland biodiversity hotspots, the North Rupununi Wetlands. This incredible wetland complex is found in the southern interior of Guyana, South America and contains more than 450 fish species, which in turn supply a food chain to endangered species such as the black caiman, giant river otter, giant river turtle, and recovering populations of the largest … Read More