{"id":14557,"date":"2026-06-20T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-forest-center-joins-global-2023-wetland-restoration-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:25:01","slug":"iita-forest-center-joins-global-2023-wetland-restoration-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-forest-center-joins-global-2023-wetland-restoration-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA Forest Center joins global 2023 Wetland Restoration Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"Wetlands make up about 6% of the earth\u2019s surface but accommodate about 40% of all species of plants and animals. Mangroves, marshes, peatlands, rice fields, coral reefs, lakes, lagoons, deltas, floodplains, and rivers make up the earth\u2019s wetlands. They remain among the most biologically diverse portions of the ecosystems, supporting a wide range of plant and animal species in a combination of land and water space, which usually characterizes wetlands. The world\u2019s most expansive wetlands include the Amazon River basin, the Pantanal in South America, and the West Siberian Plain.\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_25754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25754\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25754\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Drone-view-of-the-biodiversity-rich-wetlands.jpg\" alt=\" Drone view of the biodiversity-rich wetlands around the IITA Ibadan campus.\" width=\"820\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drone view of the biodiversity-rich wetlands around the IITA Ibadan campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nOver the last 100 years, 50% of the world\u2019s wetlands have disappeared due to increased housing needs from the rise of urbanization, water pollution, species invasion, water filling, and overfishing. UN reports that we are losing wetlands three times faster than we are losing forests. Ironically, wetlands store more carbon than forests. Peatlands store about 30% of all land-based carbon. Mangroves store carbon about 55 times faster than tropical rainforests.\n\nWetlands provide ecosystem services that support the existence and sustenance of people and lifeforms on planet earth. These ecosystem services include water purification, water storage, flood control, carbon decomposition, carbon sequestration and storage, storm protection, and climate regulation. Wetlands support the livelihood of about 60% of humans who live and work in coastal areas. Wetland paddies provide rice for about 3.5 billion people, and over a billion people make their living from fishing, aquaculture, and tourism.\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_25753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25753\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25753\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-wetland-serving-the-Olokemeji-community-in-southwestern-Nigeria.jpg\" alt=\"A wetland serving the Olokemeji community in southwestern Nigeria.\" width=\"820\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wetland serving the Olokemeji community in southwestern Nigeria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nWetlands can be harnessed to combat climate change and are great filters. Similar to the kidney function of the human body, wetlands eject wastes from water bodies to keep them pure. On the other hand, forests mop up excess carbon toxic to the environment and the human body. Hence, environmentalists have described wetlands as the kidneys of the earth and forests as the planet\u2019s lungs. The active combination of wetland- and forest-restoration actions is a promising route to reaching the UN commitment to global net-zero carbon dioxide emission by 2050.\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/forestcenter.iita.org\/\">Centre Forestier<\/a> restores degraded forests and invariably restores the wetlands around the Olokemeji area of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, through funding from Nigerian Breweries, TerraMatch, and One Tree Planted. This year, IITA Forest Center joins the UN Convention to implore everyone to actively commit to restoring the world\u2019s wetlands. We must make choices that support the protection of our wetlands for the good of our people and planet. At the most basic level:\n<ul>\n \t<li>Avoid wasting water<\/li>\n \t<li>Avoid running chemicals and toxic substances into wetlands<\/li>\n \t<li>Avoid dumping solid wastes and household trash into wetlands<\/li>\n \t<li>Adopt an eco-friendly diet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOn a broader level, join communities and contribute to initiatives that protect the environment. Be the voice for wetlands restoration among your friends and through your social media platforms.\n\n<em>Propos\u00e9 par Folake Oduntan<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wetlands make up about 6% of the earth\u2019s surface but accommodate about 40% of all species of plants and animals.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":14575,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[201],"class_list":["post-14557","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-201"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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