Photo Contest World Wetlands Day 2019

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1. World Wetlands Day Launching Ceremony
2. Kota Kinabalu Wetlands Open Day (public)
3. Mangrove Challenge (students)
4. A book launching of “A Guide to the Plants of Kota Kinabalu Wetlands”
5. Registration for KK Wetlands Voluntary Guardian
6. The registration form can be downloaded here.

Please read the terms and conditions before registering.

For more info, please follow and like our Facebook page for The National Level World Wetlands Day 2016, where we share all the photos of 2KM Walk-N-Plant-A-Thon and Official Ceremony during the event. Feel free to tag & share to your friends!

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Sabah Wetlands Conservation Society is celebrating World Wetlands Day on 7 February 2015 with an open day at Kota Kinabalu Wetlands. The theme for this year is Wetlands For Our Future. We invite all to join us together with the world in celebrating this special day in Kota Kinabalu Wetlands and also be a part of our action for wetlands conservation and make a difference for our one planet and future generations.

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The theme for this year, Caring for Wetlands ~ an Answer to Climate Change, emphasize the issue which is being faced globally, threatening important ecosystems around the world, especially wetlands, and highlighting the crucial importance of wetlands for climate change mitigation and adaption.

Ramsar estimates that the worldwide loss of wetlands already adds up to 50% – due to human-induced reasons such as habitat loss, pollution, over-exploitation and climate change; all of these factors being either steady or increasing.

In his welcoming speech, President of Sabah Wetlands Conservation Society, Haji Zainie Abdul Aucasa said, “We all have to take action, regarding the fact that wetland ecosystems are in great danger, in Malaysia and worldwide. More awareness needs to rise about just how important wetlands are for our existence – not only in terms of climate change”.

Activities conducted during the celebration included the “Wetlands and Climate Change Challenge” – an interactive educational rally for school students, and a talk to explain the roles that children can play to care about and conserve wetlands by guest speaker from the RAMSAR centre in Japan, Ms. Reiko Nakamura.

An official ceremony was officiated by Datuk Masidi Manjun, State Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment. During this ceremony, prize winners for the Wetlands and Climate Change Challenge, and, the Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre logo design competition were presented.

This year, 2010, also marks the 10th year that Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre, formally known as the Kota Kinabalu City Bird Sanctuary, of being open to the public.

World Wetlands Day 2010 is an initiative of the RAMSAR Convention on Wetlands. The celebration at Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre is made possible by the generous commitment by HSBC Bank, under Phase 2 of the Invest in the Young and the Future project, a joint collaboration between HSBC and Sabah Wetlands Conservation Society.

*Press release circulated on 13th February 2010.

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