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World Wetlands Day celebration is an ideal venue for raising
awareness of wetland values and benefits. With this year’s theme “Caring
for Wetlands, an answer to Climate Change”, two key areas are
being looked into – biodiversity and climate change, exploring their
relationships and what it all means for wetlands and people. What
is the human role in driving the loss of biodiversity? What can we
do to find solutions? Wetlands are vulnerable to human-induced
climate change but, if we manage them well, wetland ecosystems and
their biodiversity have a role to play in the mitigation of climate
change and will be important in helping humans to adapt to climate
change through their critical role in ensuring water and food
security. Caring for wetlands is a part of the solution to climate
change.
The Society of the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands, the country’s
designated NGO Focal Point of Ramsar
Convention’s CEPA (communication, education, and public awareness)
lined up a series of activities for the World Wetlands Day
month-long celebration. To open it, a Program was held, in
partnership with the Protected Areas and
Wildlife Bureau - Department of Environment and Natural Resources, at the
Amphitheater of the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Nature Center in
the morning of 02 February 2010.
Highlights of the program were the opening of the exhibit of entries
to the Candaba Wetlands Center Design Competition (in partnership with
the Architectural Students’ Association of the Philippines – UP
Diliman Chapter); the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement
between the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau and the
Society for the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands on the
development of the Wetland Exhibit at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and
Wildlife Nature Center; and the awarding of the Wetlands
Conservation Awards.
see the gallery of event
see the program of the event
more about the
Candaba Wetlands Center Design Competition
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