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Vietnamese citizens in Myanmar warned to pay attention to safety
The Foreign Ministry has directed the Vietnamese Embassy in Myanmar to keep a close watch on the situation in the host country, while keeping close contacts with local agencies, regularly updating on local information and staying ready to roll out measures to protect Vietnamese citizens if necessary.
The embassy has contacted the Vietnamese community in the country to update on their situation, and to remind them to maintain normal operations.
Vietnamese citizens in Myanmar are warned to avoid travelling far from the areas where they live as well as stay away from gatherings, and pay attention to protecting their own security and safety, especially during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays.
Inle Lake Wildlife Sanctuary in Myanmar serves as a watershed and water source for communities’ electricity and domestic use. Photo by Hein Htet, winner in the ASEAN Heritage Parks Category of 2020 Zooming in on Biodiversity photo competition.
LAGUNA, Feb. 2 The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity expresses its solidarity with the rest of the world in celebrating World Wetlands Day and highlighting the urgency and need to conserve and protect wetlands ecosystems.
World Wetlands Day, which falls annually on the 2nd of February, marks the date of the adoption of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, a treaty ratified by 170 countries to protect wetlands and promote their wise use.
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Up to 87% of global wetlands have been lost in the past 300 years, 1/3 of those just since 1970.
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The world s wetland blindness is inexplicable given the pivotal role of healthy wetlands in delivering global commitments on climate change, sustainable development & biodiversity. Wetland loss has significantly contributed to the huge loss of species populations over the same period. The Danube and its main tributaries have seen 80% of their wetlands disappear over the past 150 years and the natural water flow in the river bed has been interrupted by dams. Damage to the river has mainly been caused by diking, river regulation and damming to meet the needs of hydroelectric power, navigation, agriculture and flood prevention projects.
Water, conservation and human rights are inseparable in the Iraq’s marshlands: A call for action on World Wetlands Day [EN/AR/KU]
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Baghdad, 02 February 2021 – Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, which aims to protect water, livelihoods and wetlands. In 2008, Iraq ratified the Convention designating four wetlands of international importance in southern Iraq: Central Marshes (Dhi Qar and Basra governorates), Hammar Marsh (Dhi Qar and Basra governorates), Hawizeh Marsh (Basra, Missan governorates and Iran) and Sawa Lake (Muthanna Governorate). Wetlands are land areas that are saturated or flooded with water either permanently or seasonally. The Iraqi Marshlands used to be one of the largest wetland ecosystems. A rare aquatic landscape in the desert, the Iraqi marshlands were listed in 2016 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
New Zealand’s peat wetlands are more
powerful than tropical forests at absorbing
carbon.
For World Wetlands Day today, Forest &
Bird is releasing regional data to show wetlands are our
secret resource in working to mitigate the effects of
climate change. The Government needs to introduce a
plan to protect and recharge Aotearoa’s wetlands, says
Forest & Bird freshwater advocate Annabeth
Cohen.
“Only about 10 percent of our historic
wetlands remain, and the few wetlands left are dwindling
every day to make room for pasture or urban
development.”
“If we save every remaining wetland,
and double what we’ve got, there could be great gains for