Conservation
Help Spread Awareness of Wetland Conservation on World Wetlands Day, February 2!
SWS Membership Benefits Each year, World Wetlands Day is observed on February 2nd in an effort to raise awareness of wetland conservation. Today is also the anniversary of the Convention on Wetlands, which was adopted as an international treaty in 1971. This year’s celebration of World Wetlands Day in 2022 is especially exciting because of…
Read MoreSWS Oceania Chapter Held Fire in Wetlands Forum
SWS Membership Benefits On September 8-9, 2021, the SWS Oceania Chapter held a Fire in Wetlands Forum which brought together scientists and managers from across Australia and covered topics including overviews and case-studies of fire management in and around a range of wetland types, wetland fire paleo-histories in Australia, cultural burning and wetland responses to…
Read MoreU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries to Propose Regulatory Revisions to Endangered Species Act
SWS Membership Benefits Dear conservation stakeholder, Please see this news release from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service announcing that it, along with the National Marine Fisheries Service, are releasing a plan to improve and strengthen implementation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The set of proposed actions follows Executive Order 13990, which directed all federal…
Read MoreLake Ohrid: Soon to become a Ramsar Wetland
SWS Membership Benefits The SWS Europe chapter has some good news to share. We were alarmed by people from North Macedonia in 2015 because the very last wetland bordering the famous Lake Ohrid, Studenchishte Marsh, was threatened to be drained for tourist infrastructure development. After writing letters to the authorities on behalf of SWS, we…
Read MorePublication of paper on the Universal Rights of Wetlands
SWS Membership Benefits A new paper entitled “Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands” was published (online early) in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research. It is available and downloadable through open access. The manuscript was prepared as part of the Rights of Wetlands Initiative of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Categories Biofuel CASS Chapter News Clean…
Read MoreWorld’s leading aquatic scientific societies urgently call for cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions
SWS Membership Benefits Dire consequences for freshwater and marine resources without significant and fast action Bethesda, MD (September 14, 2020). In an unprecedented statement released today, 110 aquatic scientific societies, including SWS and representing more than 80,000 scientists across the world, joined forces to sound a climate change alarm. The societies call for drastically curtailed global greenhouse…
Read MoreSWS Europe Chapter produces Declaration on the Protection of the Lake Ohrid Ecosystem
SWS Membership Benefits The SWS Europe Chapter produced a Declaration on the Protection of the Lake Ohrid Ecosystem at its 13th annual chapter meeting, April 30 – May 4, 2018. The Declaration recognizes the important ecosystem services provided by the wetlands of the Lake Ohrid system and how the health of these are tied to the…
Read MoreNorth American Wetlands Conservation Council Meeting via teleconference
SWS Membership Benefits The North American Wetlands Conservation Council will meet via teleconference on February 22, 2018, at 2 p.m. EST, to select U.S. small grant proposals for reporting to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. This teleconference is open to the public, and interested persons may present oral or…
Read MoreUNESCO supports SWS’ concern for Lake Ohrid
SWS Membership Benefits The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently supported the Society of Wetland Scientists’ concern for Lake Ohrid in Macedonia. As the oldest lake on the European continent, this three-million-year-old lake is considered a Natural and Cultural Heritage site, and holds valuable information on evolution and rare species. Today, Lake…
Read MoreSWS urges mayor of Ohrid to preserve Studenchista Wetland and Lake Ohrid ecosystem
SWS Membership Benefits Authored by Jos T.A. Verhoeven, Ph.D., Society of Wetland Scientists Europe Chapter President, and supported by SWS scientists Kimberli Ponzio, James Perry, Keith Edwards, Matthew Simpson, Rob McInnes Mr. Nikola Bakračeski Mayor of the City of Ohrid Dimitar Vlahov Street No. 57 6000 Ohrid R. Macedonia Respected Sir, On behalf of the…
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