{"id":13778,"date":"2017-02-02T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:58:27","slug":"world-wetlands-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/?p=13778","title":{"rendered":"World Wetlands Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Wetlands Day is annually held on February 2 to mark the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971 and to raise awareness about the important values and benefits of wetlands. The theme for World Wetlands Day 2017 is Wetlands for disaster risk reduction. Read more on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwetlandsday.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.worldwetlandsday.org<\/a>\u00a0as well as this post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2017\/02\/Botswana_wetlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Okavango Delta<\/a> by the European Space Agency<\/p>\n<p>This years theme is also being reflected in a new leaflet published by GlobWetland Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GWA_Leaflet_wwd2017_English.pdf\">GWA_Leaflet_wwd2017_English<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GWA_Leaflet_wwd2017_French.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GWA_Leaflet_wwd2017_French<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Leaflets are setup for double sided-flip on short edge printing (landscape mode).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Wetlands Day is annually held on February 2 to mark the date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17360,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions\/17360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globwetland-africa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}