February 2nd each year is World Wetlands Day (WWD). It marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

WWD was celebrated for the first time in 1997. Each year, 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.

The theme for World Wetland Day 2010 is "Caring for wetlands - an answer to climate change".

Caring about Climate Change
Means caring about Wetlands
Means caring about Biodiversity

2010 has also been designated the International Year of Biodiversity.

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