THANK YOU
Our targets for 2030 are hugely ambitious. We are seeking to safeguard and restore wetlands on a scale never seen before. And we can only do this by working in collaboration with others.
We are grateful to all our partners, existing and new, who have helped us mobilise action for wetlands and scale up our impact in 2023 – from national and local governments to knowledge institutions, civil society organisations and the private sector. Thanks too to all our members who provide vital financial support and collaborate closely in our programmes and policy advocacy. We thank our strategic partners and donors who contributed so generously in 2023 to our work for the safeguarding and restoration of wetlands worldwide. We specifically thank donors who contributed flexibly to core resources and thematic funds, enabling us to enhance our global presence and foundational programming, and to deliver on our mandate for people and nature. In 2024 we look forward to continuing to work together to strengthen our organisation further, grow our influence, accelerate our profile, and leverage new financing and partnerships for wetlands worldwide.
• The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), for funding “Wetlands 4 Resilience”, an ambitious 10- year global wetland initiative that seeks to influence policies, investments and business practices to regenerate wetland landscapes. Sida also funds our Source to Sea work that addresses the drivers of the loss of wetlands and their biodiversity in Eastern Africa. • Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for supporting us on the path towards safeguarding Sahelian wetlands. • Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for supporting wetlands conservation with integrated water resource management under the Ziway-Shalla Basin-in-Balance program. • DOB Ecology, for supporting major, long- term programmes to conserve and restore mangroves in Africa, and to conserve the river and wetland system of the Paraná-Paraguay and the High Andean wetlands in South America. • The International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, for enabling our work in the Sahel, West Africa and Indonesia. • Arcadia, for enabling our work to help conserve and restore intertidal wetlands along the Yellow Sea coast in China, a critically important part of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway for migratory waterbirds. • Rewilding Climate Solutions for supporting the development of carbon landscape propositions for peatland restoration and attracting further funding for upscaling.
We would especially like to thank our major donors in 2023:
• The COmON Foundation, for providing vital core funding to make our organisation more effective, as well as supporting our work to integrate wetlands and water issues into the 4 Returns methodology for landscape restoration in partnership with Commonland and Landscape Finance Lab. • The Dutch Postcode Lottery, for an invaluable three-year grant (2021-2023) enabling us to step up our work on wetland landscape recovery.
Wetlands International collaborated with local partners in Lake Turkana, Kenya, to .to promote the regeneration and improved management of rangelands, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystem functioning. This led to a local leaders’ dialogue, followed by a pilot restoration of 600 hectares of the Parar and Kapua rangelands with foxtail buffalo grass to preserve pastures for people and nature.
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