Wetlands for Life

The World Wetland Network (WWN) international wetland awards - please vote!

WWN is a support network for all non governmental organisations (NGO's) working in wetland conservation anywhere in the world. It aims to help better link local wetland NGO's with international wetland agreements. WWN will also help with information exchange, sharing of best practice and lobbying on specific wetland issues.

The International Wetland Globes awards scheme recognises best practice and weltand restoration, and highlights wetlands in danger.  We invite you to sign up and vote; we have already had 120 new registrations from around the world.  So if you want to show your support for a wetland, or raise awareness of a wetland in danger, then please sign up.  The deadline for the award is the 30th of September 2010.  WWN has been allocated a side event at the CBD COP in Nagoya, Japan, on the 27th October, to present the awards.

The Guardian Newspaper is running a site to collect 100 best ideas for actions that world G20 governments could take to improve biodiversity - see their website for more.

Featured Region: Neotropics

Home to some of the most biodiverse areas in the world, the Neotropics stretches from Central America in the North, west to the Caribbean and the down to South America almost reaching the Antarctic at its southern tip.

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