World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year internationally on 2 February. It denotes the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971.
History
World Wetlands Day was first celebrated in 1997. Several agencies, non-government organizations celebrated World Wetlands Day to raise public awareness of wetland values and benefits and promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands. These activities include seminars, nature walks, festivals, the announcement of new Ramsar sites, newspaper articles, radio interviews, and wetland rehabilitation.
Theme
World Wetlands Day 2020 International Theme is Wetlands and Biodiversity. This theme reflected in the February 2020 edition of Wetlands Australia. Biodiversity is a foundational value of wetlands and an inherent part of the significance of these ecosystems. It is through wetland biodiversity that critical ecological processes carried out. The contribution that wetland biodiversity has on broader environments, society, and economies has also been historically undervalued.
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