Wetlands Conservation: Protection and Restoration
One of the pools in the Cuatrocienigas wetlands at the heart of the Chihuahua Desert, Mexico.
© WWF-Canon / Edward PARKER
© WWF-Canon / Edward PARKER
Wetland Protection
Protecting and managing critically important freshwater wetlands worldwide.
Over the next 10 years, WWF will champion the protection and management of 250 million hectares of freshwater wetlands, more than trebling the number of protected freshwater wetlands worldwide.
Through its wetlands conservation and protection work, WWF seeks to conserve many of the most wildlife-rich wetlands on Earth. These habitats make up a life support system on which people and wildlife depend.
Clean water, medicinal plants, fish and raw materials are all products of wetlands. In the next 4 years, more than 30 million hectares of freshwater wetlands will be protected and at least 10 ecosystems and their catchments better managed.
Through its wetlands conservation and protection work, WWF seeks to conserve many of the most wildlife-rich wetlands on Earth. These habitats make up a life support system on which people and wildlife depend.
Clean water, medicinal plants, fish and raw materials are all products of wetlands. In the next 4 years, more than 30 million hectares of freshwater wetlands will be protected and at least 10 ecosystems and their catchments better managed.
Wetland Restoration
Conserving and restoring the world's freshwater ecosystems and its ecological processes
WWF promotes activities to restore at least 50 large river basins crucial to wildlife and people, in addition to many wetlands.
WWF is working for healthy rivers as they link land and sea and support wildlife. Well-managed river basins are also vital to providing and storing water, regulating floods and sustaining fisheries. International processes and government practices - including laws, water markets and river basin authorities - will reflect sound river basin management and 10 damaging infrastructure schemes to develop rivers will be halted or redirected.
WWF is working for healthy rivers as they link land and sea and support wildlife. Well-managed river basins are also vital to providing and storing water, regulating floods and sustaining fisheries. International processes and government practices - including laws, water markets and river basin authorities - will reflect sound river basin management and 10 damaging infrastructure schemes to develop rivers will be halted or redirected.
