World Wetlands Day

In the last 50 years, 35 per cent of the world’s wetlands disappeared. Biodiversity loss and climate change have put the planet on life support, but the key to recovery is in our hands: wetland restoration.

Strategic restoration re-establishes and protects natural processes and ecosystems. It’s taking centre stage right now as we face the reality that it’s not enough to focus simply on saving the limited, intact places that remain.

We’re proud to be the country’s leading organization in wetland conservation and restoration. Now celebrating our 85th anniversary, we have decades of work for wetlands showing that nature can rebound when given the chance.

Now it’s time for all Canadians to recognize this opportunity. By working together, we have unlimited potential to create a healthier environment and hope for the future.

It’s a critical part of nature’s comeback.

Historic losses of wetland habitat across Canada have created unsustainable landscapes. We must protect the habitats that remain intact while we work to restore healthy, connected watersheds.

Wetland restoration is needed across the country, from east to west:

• 65% of Atlantic tidal and salt marshes lost
• 70% of the Lower Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River coastal wetlands lost
• 71% of Prairie potholes and sloughs lost
• 80% of the Pacific coast estuarine wetlands lost