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World Wetlands Day 2024 - February 02
February 4 , 2024
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- It aims to raise awareness for the importance of wetlands for human lives and the planet.
- Wetlands can be both freshwater or marine or coastal, consisting of swamps, wet grasslands, marshes, coral reefs and mangroves.
- Wetlands cover only six percent of the earth, but more than forty percent of animal and plant species live and breed in wetlands.
- The Ramsar Convention, named after the Iranian city of Ramsar, was an international treaty for the conservation of wetlands.
- The treaty was signed on February 2, 1971.
- This year's theme is - Wetlands and human wellbeing.
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