World Wetlands Day 2021 – Threatened Lake Areas

2 February 2021, Online

Living Lakes, the Global Nature Fund together with the German NGO Forum on Environment & Development celebrated the World Wetlands Day 2021 – Wetlands and Water with the online
event Threatened Lake Areas announcing the Pantanal as this years ‘Threatened Lake of the Year’. You also learn about Wetland Albufera in Valencia, Spain and get an impression of the Global Lakes Marathon, an inspiring 24 hours online event around the globe. 

Programme:

Introduction and Moderation

Udo Gattenlöhner, Executive Director, Global Nature Fund

News from L’Albufera – Threatened Lake of the Year 2020

Antonio Guillem, Fundación Global Nature, Spain

The Pantanal: Threatened Lake of the Year 2021 – Lakes of Holstein Switzerland: Living Lakes of the Year 2020/2021

Bettina Schmidt, Project Manager, Global Nature Fund

Global Lake Marathon Impressions and conclusions + Citizen Science

Éva Geletáné Varga, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Hungary

Lakes without Limits – Nature without Barriers

Roman Guziak, ETNA, Poland, Katja Weickmann, Global Nature Fund, Germany

Contributions from the Living Lakes Network

Discussion

End of the event

The recording of the online event on World Wetlands Day 2021 is available here:

Wetlands: A Global Priority

Fundación Global Nature

We look back over our almost 30 years of existence. For us, wetlands have always been and remain a global priority. We aim to restore thousands of hectares over the next 10 years. With local partnerships, with biodiversity and climate change at the heart.