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World Wetlands Day

World Wetlands Day is celebrated on 2 February each year. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Since 1997, wetland management and conservation groups use the opportunity to undertake events and actions aimed at raising public awareness about the convention, as well as wetland values and benefits.

Little Pied Comorant Photo by SEQ Catchments

World Wetlands day 2020

Information materials to support outreach activities for World Wetlands Day 2020 are now available to download from the Ramsar Convention website at www.worldwetlandsday.org. Wetlands and Biodiversity is the theme for 2020. Information materials to download includes:

  • a poster
  • nine digital cards
  • an infographic
  • a PowerPoint presentation

Event organisers are able to upload their events on the global map: https://www.worldwetlandsday.org/events.

The Australian Government is also preparing an edition of the online Wetlands Australia magazine, which will be available in late January at:  http://www.environment.gov.au/water/wetlands/publications/wetlands-australia. You can subscribe to the magazine and a notification will be sent to you when it is available.

Brisbane City Council

Events and activities at Environment Centres

Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee

World Wetlands Day Bird Walk

Fitzroy Basin Association

Wetlands & Biodiversity – World Wetlands Day 2020

Join Gladstone Regional Council and Conservation Volunteers Australia for a morning of wetland restoration and bird watching to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2020.

FLOW Visitors Centre

The FLOW Visitors Centre in Rockhampton is open Tuesday to Thursday from 10am–3pm.

Australian Government

Are you hosting an event?

The Australian Government produces an online Calendar of Events for World Wetlands Day each year. If you have a World Wetlands Day activity that you would like added to the calendar or listed on WetlandInfo please contact wetlandsmail♲environment.gov.au.

Last updated: 30 January 2020

This page should be cited as:

Events, WetlandInfo 2012, Department of Environment and Science, Queensland, viewed 4 April 2020, <https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/resources/events/>.

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