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World Wetlands Day 2025 will focus on the theme, ‘Wetlands and People’. The Day aims to highlight how all aspects of human well-being, including environmental, mental, and physical, are tied to the health of wetlands.
Wetlands are defined as both freshwater and coastal and marine ecosystems and include all lakes and rivers, swamps, marshes, peatlands, estuaries, deltas, tidal flats, mangroves, coral reefs, and underground aquifers. These areas are critical to people and nature for both their intrinsic value and their benefits and services, which contribute to human well-being and sustainable development. Despite the critical role of wetlands, they are among the ecosystems with the highest rates of decline, loss, and degradation. Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests.
For more information visit www.worldwetlandsday.org.
