5th Asian Wetland Symposium
Date:
18-20 July 2011
Venue:
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Participants:
324 participants from 24 countries
Organizers:
- Sabah State Government
- Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia
- Japan International Cooperation Agency
- Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
- Ramsar Center Japan
Theme
Integrated biodiversity conservation: linking forests and wetlands
Key messages from the event
The primary objective of the AWS Sabha 2011 was to enhance synergy in the delivery of the targets and goals of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Programme, and United Nationals Forum on Forests…. Water, through the natural infrastructure provided by wetlands, is one of the main unifying factors for these international conventions and initiatives. In the face of increasing pressures on water quality and quantity caused by the continued degradation on loss of wetlands and existing and emerging challenges such as climate change, there is a need for better integration of such initiatives at the local, national and regional levels, and to identify innovative approaches for sustainable development, financing, human well-being and biodiversity conservation.
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