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CSO Letter to the World Bank Group President: Extreme caution and due diligence for transition mineral mining

A coalition of 41 civil society organisations, including Wetlands International Europe, is calling on the World Bank Group (WBG) to take extreme caution as it […]

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World Water Day – a message from Wetlands International Europe

A message from Wetlands International Europe’s Director, Chris Baker. Today, on the 22nd of March 2024, as we are celebrating UN World Water Day, it’s […]

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EU Commission Urged to Act: Call for Draft Amendment on Lead Restriction in Outdoor Activities

Leading Conservation Organizations and Experts Call on EU Commission to Address Lead Pollution in Outdoor Activities In a joint effort to combat the ongoing environmental […]

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CALL TO ACTION: EU Wetland Partnerships Initiative

Healthy wetlands offer economic opportunities, support jobs, and provide livelihoods, but they are being lost. Business as usual is not working. We need international partnerships […]

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Open Letter to Ursula von der Leyen: Concerns about Commission’s proposal to extend Derogations to GAEC 8 under CAP

27 NGOs have aligned to publish an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. The organisations express their serious concerns […]

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EVENT: The environmental and human rights impacts of raw material extraction

Event: The environmental and human rights impacts of raw material extraction: Lithium in the High Andes, Argentina Tuesday, 30 January 2024 – 14:00 to 15:30 […]

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Event: The environmental and human impacts of raw material extraction: Lithium in the High Andes, Argentina

NOTE: THIS EVENT WAS CANCELED AND POSTPONED TO 30th JANUARY 2024 Tuesday, 14 November 2023 – 18:00 to 18:45 (CET) Join us for an interactive […]

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A new impulse for EU LAC CSOs engagement discussed in a gathering

Wetlands International Europe participated on 25 and 26 September along more than 40 networks and platforms, representing more than 800 organizations from the Latin-American, Caribbean […]

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Leica commits to supporting waterbird monitoring

A significant new collaboration between the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) and Leica Camera AG will provide multi-year support to important waterbird monitoring activities such as […]

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EU proposal on soil health falls far short of needed action to reverse degradation

Today the European Commission introduced its proposal for a Soil Monitoring Directive. While the proposal provides important recognition of the need for rapid action to […]