Events held annually on February 2 on World Wetlands Day are designed to draw the attention of the public and governments around the world to the value of wetlands for maintaining the sustainable development of our planet.

The Convention on Wetlands (Convention on Wetlands), which are of international importance primarily as a habitat for waterfowl, was signed on February 2, 1971 in the city of Ramsar (Iran) and has since been called the Ramsar Convention (Ramsar Convention).