6th Asian Wetland Symposium   

Date:
11-13 October 2011

Venue:
Wuxi, China

Participants:
720 participants from 20 countries

Organizers:

  • Office of Wetlands Conservation and Management of the State Forestry Administration, The People’s Republic of China
  • State Forestry Administration, The People’s Republic of China
  • Forestry Department of Jiangsu Province Government, China
  • Wuxi Municipal People’s Government, China

Co-organizers:

  • Ministry of Environment, Japan

Theme

Wetlands and human well-being

Key messages from the event

We would like to let our grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles and aunties who are attending this symposium know that we wish to live in a clean and healthy environment and we would like to call upon everyone here to love nature, love wetland and consider their conservation and wise use so as to make this place a better place for all living beings: plants, animals, wildlife, human beings and their future generations.

Excerpt from Letter from the Ramsar KODOMO, Asian Wetland Symposium: A journey from Otsu to Wuxi (2012)

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