Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve in northern province of Ninh Binh. (Photo: VNA)World Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of theConvention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971. 2022 will be the first year that WorldWetlands Day will be observed as a UN international day, following itsadoption by the UN General Assembly on August 30, 2021 in a resolutionco-sponsored by 75 member states.
This year’s event is themed “Wetland Action for People andNature,” aims to motivate individuals, businesses, and governments to “investfinancial, human and political capital to save the world’s wetlands fromdisappearing and to restore those we have degraded.”
It was estimated that wetlands, amongst the world’s mostvaluable ecosystems and essential regulators of the global climate, aredisappearing three times faster than forests. Approximately 35 percent of theworld’s wetlands have been lost since 1970.
The MoNRE asks relevant ministries, organisations and localadministrations to take the occasion to raise public awareness of the value andimportance of wetlands to human health and nature; to strengthen management andrestoration of wetlands; and to call on people to engage in protecting andsustainably exploiting wetlands.
The 1971 Convention on Wetlands is an inter-governmental treatywhose mission is “the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through localand national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towardsachieving sustainable development throughout the world”. It has been joined by172 UN member states. Vietnam participated the convention in 1989, making itthe first signatory in Southeast Asia./.
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