World Wetlands Day
10 am - 1pm 1539 Edendale-Woodlands Hwy, Edendale 9893, New Zealand
Environment Southland is hosting a field day to celebrate World Wetlands Day on 23 February. World Wetlands Day (celebrated annually on 2 February) is an opportunity to remember the 1971 adoption of the International Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar, Iran.
Each year Environment Southland celebrates World Wetlands Day with an event, and this year ES are hosting this field day to help landowners understand how to improve habitat for Australasian bittern in their wetlands.New Zealand’s wetlands are home to several threatened birds and plants. Among the threatened wetland birds, matuku-hūrepo (the Australasian bittern) is a key indicator species for wetland ecosystem health: meaning that if we improve the habitat in the wetlands for these ‘umbrella’ species, it will help other less noticeable, smaller and potentially threatened species too. Details also on fb ES page World Wetland Day event
Come along and learn about wetlands and how you can restore wetland habitat from experts and other landowners. Please register here
