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Press Release: Asia rallies behind Building with Nature to scale up climate change adaptation efforts

India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan are among the countries gathering in the Netherlands this week to discuss how to scale up the nature-based adaptation […]

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Launch of a new initiative on Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

2015 was a landmark year wherein several major global frameworks, notably the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction recognized the role of ecosystems as key […]

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Dr Ritesh Kumar appointed as Director of Wetlands International South Asia

  The Governing Body has appointed Dr Ritesh Kumar as Director of Wetlands International South Asia. Dr Kumar will be the principal institutional representative of […]

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IKI Wetlands Climate Change project launched

  The MoEFCC and GIZ launched the IKI Wetlands Climate Change project today at an inception workshop held at New Delhi. The project will work […]

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Wetlands International South Asia designated as NGO CEPA Focal Point for Ramsar Convention

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, has designated us as the Ramsar CEPA (Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness) NGO Focal […]

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Wetlands form a part of the first Indo-German Joint Working Group meeting

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Government of India) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Germany) held […]

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World Wetlands Day 2019: Let’s make wetland conservation a popular movement

To mark World Wetlands Day, Wetlands International South Asia (WISA) organized a seminar on “Wetlands and Climate Change” at India International Centre, New Delhi. The seminar discussed […]

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India designates Sundarban as Ramsar Site

Spread across India and Bangladesh over 1 million ha area, Sunderban is the world’s largest single contiguous mangrove swamp. The Indian part received its formal […]

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Release of Calendar 2019

This year our calendar celebrates the diversity of Wetlands of International Significance (Ramsar Sites) of South Asia. As a commitment to Ramsar Convention, the Governments […]

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Fifth Project Advisory Group meeting

The Project Advisory Group of Wetlands International South Asia met on December 20, 2018. Proposals on high altitude wetlands and integration of wetlands in River […]