Mumble, a sweet little ball of penguin fluff has one big problem: no matter how hard he tries, he can't sing. But as it happens, Mumble is a brilliant tap-dancer. He unleashes his deepest feelings not through his beak, he pours them out through his 'happy feet.' His adventures in search of the place where he will be accepted led to his finding one big world problem looming on the horizon - the seas become depleted of fish.
Fish for tomorrow, this is the slogan for this year's International Wetland Day celebrated all over the world, today. With the theme 'Wetlands supports fisheries - Keep them healthy', this year's celebration is highlighting the importance of ensuring that fisheries, and the wetlands that support them, remain productive and sustainable for future generations.
Showing the movie 'Happy Feet' just before today's celebration is one way of making it known to the world, through little Mumble, how we all need to start acting on the worsening scenario of the continuous wiping out of the fish population in our seas.
'Fish for tomorrow' encapsulates the many challenges that mankind is currently faced with. Sustainable management of fish (and other marine species) populations, especially those that are commercially fished, by supporting sustainable aquaculture practices. Effectively managing wetlands and other important fish habitats to protect and conserve fish populations and, increasing buyer awareness of fish species for consumption.
Healthy and functional inland and coastal wetlands play a very important role in the management and conservation of our important fish resources. They provide important habitat for fish populations, including rare and endangered fish species, and are spawning and nursery areas for many fish and other marine species.
World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on the 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971.
World Wetlands Day was first celebrated in 1997. Since this time government agencies, non-government organisations and community groups all over the world celebrate World Wetlands Day by undertaking actions to raise public awareness of wetland values and benefits and promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands.
In different town and cities all over Tamilnadu, activities that include seminars, nature walks, newspaper articles, radio interviews and wetland rehabilitation.
The focus for today's international celebration is on wetlands and fisheries in recognition of the needs of one billion people who rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein. The day is also dedicate to looking at the state of the world's fisheries where 75 per cent of commercially important marine and most inland water fish stocks are either currently overfished or being fished at their biological limit, and where the effects of unsustainable aquaculture practices on wetland ecosystems are of growing concern.
Inland and coastal wetlands play an important role in supporting fish and fisheries at all levels, from large-scale, commercial fisheries to subsistence fishers, and from wild, capture fisheries to farmed fish.
If we learn to care for the wetlands, not only will Mumble and the rest of the penguins at the north pole not run out of fish to eat, but the world's habitat will remain its balance for a more sustainable livelihood in the future.
Fish for tomorrow, this is the slogan for this year's International Wetland Day celebrated all over the world, today. With the theme 'Wetlands supports fisheries - Keep them healthy', this year's celebration is highlighting the importance of ensuring that fisheries, and the wetlands that support them, remain productive and sustainable for future generations.
Showing the movie 'Happy Feet' just before today's celebration is one way of making it known to the world, through little Mumble, how we all need to start acting on the worsening scenario of the continuous wiping out of the fish population in our seas.
'Fish for tomorrow' encapsulates the many challenges that mankind is currently faced with. Sustainable management of fish (and other marine species) populations, especially those that are commercially fished, by supporting sustainable aquaculture practices. Effectively managing wetlands and other important fish habitats to protect and conserve fish populations and, increasing buyer awareness of fish species for consumption.
Healthy and functional inland and coastal wetlands play a very important role in the management and conservation of our important fish resources. They provide important habitat for fish populations, including rare and endangered fish species, and are spawning and nursery areas for many fish and other marine species.
World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on the 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971.
World Wetlands Day was first celebrated in 1997. Since this time government agencies, non-government organisations and community groups all over the world celebrate World Wetlands Day by undertaking actions to raise public awareness of wetland values and benefits and promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands.
In different town and cities all over Tamilnadu, activities that include seminars, nature walks, newspaper articles, radio interviews and wetland rehabilitation.
The focus for today's international celebration is on wetlands and fisheries in recognition of the needs of one billion people who rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein. The day is also dedicate to looking at the state of the world's fisheries where 75 per cent of commercially important marine and most inland water fish stocks are either currently overfished or being fished at their biological limit, and where the effects of unsustainable aquaculture practices on wetland ecosystems are of growing concern.
Inland and coastal wetlands play an important role in supporting fish and fisheries at all levels, from large-scale, commercial fisheries to subsistence fishers, and from wild, capture fisheries to farmed fish.
If we learn to care for the wetlands, not only will Mumble and the rest of the penguins at the north pole not run out of fish to eat, but the world's habitat will remain its balance for a more sustainable livelihood in the future.
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Published in the International Wetlands Day issue of Newstoday, 02 Feb 2007, page 7.
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