World Wetlands Day

Hikers celebrating World Wetlands Day in Israel (2012). The poster reads "Ramsar day - Israel 2012" and features a Hula Painted Frog: a recently rediscovered endemic species

World Wetlands Day occurs on February 2, every year.

Mag-aba National High School Yes-O Volunteers in the Mangrove Tree Planting held at Pandan, Antique, The Philippines

It marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands, called Ramsar Convention, on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. WWD was celebrated for the first time in 1997 and made an encouraging beginning. Each year, 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. From 1997 to 2007, the Convention’s Web site has posted reports from more than 95 countries of WWD activities of all sizes and shapes, from lectures and seminars, nature walks, children’s art contests, sampan races, and community clean-up days, to radio and television interviews and letters to newspapers, to the launch of new wetland policies, new Ramsar sites, and new programmes at the national level. On February 2010 World Wetlands day held in Korea under the Ramsar support.

External links

• ramsar.org - World Wetlands Day portal