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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … 8 - Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Seaflower Marine Protected Area, 99 San Andres Archipelago, Colombia A … Programme of Work (PoW) on mountains, forests, islands and protected areas (CBD, 2000). In 2004, the CBD recognized that …
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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 3: Wetlands sustain lives. How can we take care of them?

… instead? Communities • Find out how the wetlands in your area are being used or overused - and who depends on them. How do wetlands protect your area during extreme events? • Adopt practices that ensure … • Designate wetlands in flood- and storm-prone zones as protected areas. • Restore degraded wetlands that act as …
17 May 2026 Document

World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… of time, we can designate flood- and storm-prone areas as protected wetlands to strengthen nature’s own buffer. The Biosphere Reserve of the Saloum Delta in Senegal is an area of estuaries, lakes and marshes. It controls flooding … In Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka where offshore coral reefs are protected through a marine park, the damage from the 2004 …
17 May 2026 Document

World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 2: Five wetlands that help us cope with extreme weather events

… floods, they can spread and store flood water over a wide area, reducing damage downstream. 4. Inland deltas When … Delta in Botswana is perhaps the most famous, flooding an area the size of Belgium, providing a home for 200,000 large …
17 May 2026 Document