Significance:
World Wetlands Day helps to raise public awareness about the importance and value of wetlands. A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.
Type:
Environmental Days
Location:
World
Initiator:
UNESCO
Start year:
1997
Date origin:
World Wetlands Day marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands, called the Ramsar Convention, on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.