This week, our team took time off to🧐reflect and gauge our achievements, lessons and impacts while also planning on strategic vision for the region. Great plans coming up from a superb team💪🏾 #WeNeedWetlands

Wetlands act as a source and purifier of water:

🌊 they protect us from floods and droughts,
🌿 they provide food and livelihoods to millions of people,
🦜 they support rich biodiversity, and they store more carbon than any other ecosystem.

global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/gwo-2018

'In early 1980s, fish here was plenty and water levels were high. Around 2002, water levels began dropping. In 2016, it dried up. All fish died as the water turned salty'- S. Musyoka, BMU Chair at Lake Kenyatta. Read rb.gy/dhit1f about plans afoot to restore the Lake

Healthy, ecologically functioning wetlands are a key delivery mechanism for several other global commitments, including those relating to biodiversity, sustainable development, land degradation, climate change and disaster risk reduction.

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#WetlandsCOP15

Happy #WorldWaterDay !
#Water and #wetlands – are not just victims of the climate and nature crises, they are central to solving them. #WeneedWetlands

Currently on, #UWEWK24 side even on peatlands by GIZ Uganda Michael Succow Stiftung GreifswaldMireCentre Convention on Wetlands Wetlands International Eastern Africa Food and Agriculture Organization MINISTRY OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENT 🇺🇬

Watch how PRATI, a community group in Pate Island, Lamu and our team, with support from Sida and DOB Ecology, are integrating mud crab fattening with #mangroves conservation and restoration Lilian Nyaega, shawlet cherono Joachim Beijmo Ayele Kebede Gebreye Wetlands International Wetlands International_SA

Don't miss a special side event on peatlands on 20th March during the Uganda Water & Environment week organised by MINISTRY OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENT 🇺🇬 RAMSAR CENTRE FOR EASTERN AFRICA (RAMCEA) Wetlands International Eastern Africa GIZ Uganda Michael Succow Stiftung Convention on Wetlands . You are invited to attend both physically and online using the link below

Ahead of #IWD2024 tomorrow, read about Husna Bakari of Pate Island, Lamu on how their group is restoring #mangroves in degraded areas using #CBEMR approach Kenya Forest Service Mangrove Action Project Global Mangrove Alliance
Sida Global Mangrove AllianceNow WIOMSA tthe-star.co.ke/counties/coast…

On the last day of #UNEA6 , the final high-level Leadership Dialogues will discuss milestones for the fight against climate change ⏳📈
#Mangroves as of nature-based solutions not only protect species and nature, but also bring various benefits for people.

#RootsofHope
#NbS #WIO

Happening Now at #UNEA6 Come listen and share your knowledge with a panel of experts and leaders in matters wetlands biodiversity and water and how to create MEA synergies Julie Mulonga Dr. Musonda Xoliswa Mumba
Wetlands International Sida Joachim Beijmo
#WeNeedWetlands

Join our own Director Julie Mulonga and other panelists tomorrow at #UNEA6 as they delve into the MEA synergies for #wetland biodiversity and water

When: Friday 1 March at 10.00-11.30 am (EAT)
Where: Helipad - MEAS Events, Tent B - Stage 1
#WeNeedWetlands

📢Register rb.gy/euc5t9 to join this webinar (in French) on Monday 26 Feb by VCM Global Dialogue to learn more on responsible use of carbon credits. You'll learn due diligence steps & strategic tools to help minimise misuse of CO2 credits & secure markets credibility

In partnership with Metabolic, we recently had an engaging training for over 60 national & local govt officials, researchers & NGOs from Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Tanzania 🇹🇿& Kenya 🇰🇪 to develop a #biodiversity monitoring framework for 4 landscapes under the Source to Sea initiative Sida

What a #WorldWetlandsDay that was!

We cleaned up beaches in Kerio Delta, Turkana and Faza in Lamu 🌊

We shook a leg too to celebrate the role of wetlands in our wellbeing 💧 🐟 🏞️🌾🌿🦎

#WeNeedWetlands

On this #WorldWetlandsDay , let us remember that....

🌱 Happy #WorldWetlandsDay !
Healthy wetlands ensure -
💧cleaner water,
🦩richer biodiversity,
🌱 thriving livelihoods, and
🌎 a more resilient environment

Investing in wetlands is investing in a healthier, happier planet. 💙
#WeNeedWetlands

As we celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay , its crucial to acknowledge that our wetlands are slowly diminishing and facing a crisis. It's time to turn policies into action and pull our efforts together! Every small step to restore our water resources counts. NEMA Kenya Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Forestry

Tomorrow is #WorldWetlandsDay

Yet, every day should be a wetlands day

They are key for water & food security, climate change mitigation & adaptation, and our overall wellbeing.

Watch how collaboration is helping in water mgt in Ziway-Shalla sub basin rb.gy/3gfnx7

By 2015, scientists & experts had spelled doom on Ethiopia's L. Abijata

But from 2019, a consortium came together to train farmers on water mgt, develop H20 allocation plan & improve water governance in Ziway-Shalla sub-basin

See results 5 yrs later shorturl.at/EV123