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Dear Readers,
In this issue, we bring you an update from the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP15) to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe from 23-31 July 2025. India’s maiden resolution on ‘promoting sustainable lifestyles for the wise use of wetlands’ was adopted by the 172 contracting parties to the Ramsar Convention. Two of the Indian cities, Indore and Udaipur received accreditation as Ramsar wetland cities. We also launched CoWET, a digital tool that helps assess, communicate and harness climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction co-benefits of wetlands.
Closer home, we feature the journey of a women-led farmer producer organisation and revisit the visual stories of wetlands curated by community members themselves.
This amalgam of our global and local efforts forms our thirty sixth issue. For six years, this bi-monthly newsletter has carried stories of our work on biodiversity interlinked with wetlands, forests, one health, human-wildlife conflict, access and benefit sharing, agroecology and sustainable livelihoods. We have brought out stories from the ground as well as our capacity development efforts. We have also shared workshops and events that strengthen this work. Behind each story is the Indo-German Biodiversity Programme, working with the national and state governments, local partners, and private sector across India to support ecosystem restoration and connect sustainability with community well-being.
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Warmly,
Editors
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