World Wetland Day - February 2

The 2 February each year is World Wetlands Day, marking the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971.

Established to raise awareness about the value of wetlands for humanity and the planet, WWD was celebrated for the first time in 1997 and has grown remarkably since then. Each year, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and groups of citizens at all levels of the community have taken advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular.

Since 1998 the Ramsar Secretariat, with generous financial support from the Danone Group Evian Fund for Water, produces a variety of outreach materials which include Logos, posters, factsheets, handouts and guide documents to support country activities organized to celebrate WWD. These materials are available to freely download in the three languages of the Convention English, French and Spanish on the World Wetlands Day website. All the materials are also available in their design files for event organizers to customize and adapt them to their local languages and contexts. A few print copies are available to countries upon request to the Secretariat.