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Global Wetland Outlook 2025 released by Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention

Posted 18 Jul 2025

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Key Highlights

  • Coverage: Inland freshwater, coastal, and marine wetland extend over 1,800 million hectares.
  • Wetland Degradation:22 per cent of the world’s wetlands have been lost since 1970.
  • More wetlands are reported as being in poor condition for lower income/lower middle income countries (LICs/LMICs).
    • Africa's wetlands are among the most degraded globally.
  • The Ramsar Convention’s strategic goals align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) Targets.
  • Threats faced by Wetlands includes unplanned urbanisation, rapid industrial and infrastructure development.

Best Case Studies

  • Regional Flyway Initiative, a US$3 billion partnership across Asia, is restoring more than 140 wetlands critical to migratory birds and nearly 200 million people.
  • Seychelles issued the world’s first sovereign “blue bond”.

Way Forward

  • Integrating wetlands into national planning: Embedding wetlands into good natural capital accounting.
  • Recognising their central role in the global hydrological cycle.
  • Embedding and prioritising wetlands in innovative financial solutions: Like debt instruments (such as green bonds, blue bonds) results-based financing instruments.

Ramsar Convention, 1971

  • Intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
  • India ratified it in 1982.
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