Our vision is Prespa lakes basin managed jointly by the three countries, for the preservation of natural and cultural heritage and the wellbeing of its peoples. Our mission is to offer ways to restore and keep this balance.
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Prespa: Global significance
The Prespa Lakes basin (Southeast Europe) is a globally significant ecological and cultural landscape comprising four National Parks and several protected areas with unique habitats, flora and fauna.
The Prespa Park Coordination Committee is a trilateral body representing governments, local authorities and civil society. It supports environmental protection and sustainable development in the transboundary Prespa Park for the preservation of natural and cultural heritage and the wellbeing of its peoples.
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Children celebrate World Wetlands Day in Prespa Park
February 2, 2009
Shared waters - shared opportunities
Declared by the UN in 1993, the International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March to draw attention to the importance of freshwater and its sustainable management. Cooperation for the protection of the transboundary basin is in the focus of the 2009 World Water Day celebrations.
The world’s 263 transboundary lake and river basins include the territory of 145 countries and cover nearly half of the Earth’s land surface. Approximately 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in river and lake basins shared by two or more countries.
Still, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of in water, and 70 per cent of industrial wastes in developing countries are dumped untreated into waters and pollute them. Since 1900, half of the world’s wetlands, our principal source of renewable freshwater, have been lost. Putting an end to the deterioration of transboundary wetland ecosystems is critical for securing a stable supply of water for our homes, farms and industries.
Over the past 60 years there have been nearly 300 international water agreements and only 37 cases of reported violence between states over water. However, work remains to be done to improve and implement these international agreements and to forge new ones since 158 of the world’s 263 international river basins and transboundary aquifer systems do not have any type of cooperative management framework.♦
Watch UNDP video on World Water Day.
Wetlands: Keeping our planet alive and well
Watch the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands video
The Convention's mission is the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local, regional and national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world.♦
