Today is the world day of wetlands

2 February 2018, Friday

February 2 - is the world day of wetlands. The Convention on wetlands was signed on this day in 1971 in the city of Ramsar (Iran) for the purpose of preservation and rational use of wetlands as a means of achieving sustainable development throughout the world. Since this time, the document is referred to as the Ramsar Convention.

The wetlands of the Republic of Tatarstan were included in the Perspective list of the Ramsar Convention (the"Shadow list" of wetlands of international importance): 

- the Nizhnekamsk reservoir in estuary parts of the Ik River and White River,

- the Kuibyshev reservoir near the city of Bulgar.

Press Service of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.