Liberia Celebrates World Wetlands Day

Release date	16/06/2011
Contributor	Boye Johnson
Geographical coverage	Liberia,
Keywords	wetlands, forests, water, conservation values, biodiversity,

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.

Liberia joins other countries in the observance of this event by organizing an elaborate program that attracted representatives from the private sector, government agencies, the UN agencies and other international organizations. The event was celebrated on 2 February 2011 at the Kpatawee Waterfall with the theme: "FORESTS FOR WATER AND WETLAND". 

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