Wetlands community action news
Stay updated with the latest global news on Wetlands community activism. Discover how community led and community based action and innovation can best tackle environmental and climate change challenges and support sustainable practices.
2025
The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025) - Protecting the island farms traditionally inherited by men, women in Mexico step up, news.mongabay.com (Oct 08, 2025)
- Science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands led by Indigenous fishers, news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling, (COP15), insideclimatenews.org (Jul 29, 2025) — Uganda has taken a lead in elevating the role local communities play in wetlands protection, introducing a widely-supported resolution on the importance of cultural values. “In Uganda, we protect wetlands because of our cultural values,” This involves documenting communities’ stories, traditional ways of life and their ecological knowledge, Asadhu Ssebyoto
- The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025)
2024
- Valencia floods showed why coastal cities should restore their wetlands, theconversation.com (Dec 19, 2024)
- Saving the ‘Kidneys’ of the Great Barrier Reef, reasonstobecheerful.world (Dec 17, 2024)
- Ranching to boost grasslands conservation in Bolivia’s flooded savannas, news.mongabay.com (Nov 29, 2024)
- Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative, theguardian.com (Nov 28, 2024)
- Giant 'living tractors' are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands, bbc.co.uk (Aug 29, 2024)
- How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
2023
- Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change-Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 03, 2023) — In the process to create a climate-resilient city, the shoreline restoration of one of the largest remaining wetlands in Manhattan has succeeded due to community engagement and consistent stewardship. By Juanita Gordon
- How China protects its ‘unofficial’ wetlands, China Dialogue (Jul 24, 2023)
2022
- Mangrove forests: How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst, BBC News (Aug 14, 2022)
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