Wetlands for Life

The World Wetland Network (WWN) international wetland awards - the winners announced at Ramsar COP11

The WWN Wetland Globe Awards were announced at Ramsar’s COP11 (conference of the parties) on the 7th of July. We awarded six blue globes and 5 grey globes, highlighting best and poor practice in wetland management. The WWN committee presented awards to 11 winners, and you can see the results here. To see our new report on WWN at the Ramsar COP, click HERE!.

For a copy of the international NGO statement produced at our NGO conference at COP11, please click here.  And here is our NGO final statement.

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.  To sign up to our regular newsletter, click here.

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The Wetland Globe Awards have now been announced and we can confirm the wetlands that have won.  You can see more by clicking on each wetland, to download the details as follows.

Grey Globes were awarded to the Four Major Rivers Project (South Korea), the Lago de Tota (Colombia), Towra Point (Australia), Kopacki Rit (Croatia) and Lac Nokoué (Benin).

Blue Globes were given to Maruyama River (Japan), Whangamarino wetlands (New Zealand), Pomorie Lake (Bulgaria), Nosivolo Wetlands (Madagascar), Bad River and Kakagon Sloughs (US) and Pantanos de Villa (Peru).