Judith Eales watches the birds at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust site at Welney, Norfolk, UK. 1st February 2013. It is World Wetlands day on Saturday 2nd February, an event run since 1997 to promote awareness of the value of wetlands. The Ouse Washes at Welney are home to thousands of swans and birds that migrate for the winter.
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1 February 2013Location:
Welney Norfolk UKMore information:
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2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, 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.