Our annual review 2007 covers our global organisation and presents  the financial information, all our projects, publications and achievements.

Peatland degradation, deforestation and fires cause these areas to contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. International investors and development agencies recognise the potential cost efficiency of avoided further carbon emissions at relatively low costs. Such measures, however, cannot be effective without the full support of local communities.

This book represents the first attempt at covering all mangrove plant species in Southeast Asia, and aims at providing those involved with the management and conservation of mangroves in Southeast Asia with a guidebook for identifying mangrove plants.

This report presents shocking figures on CO2 emissions from drained peatland areas. These areas were once swamp forests. Due to extensive drainage for logging, palm oil plantations and pulp wood, the peat oxidates into huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2).

A study of Delft Hydraulics in cooperation with Wetlands International and Alterra.

Poster created for the UNFCCC meetings to show that the global climate community is doing nothing to address the significant emissions from peatland loss.

This video tell the story of the peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. These areas are causing huge CO2 emissions from degradation of peat. The Central Kalimantan Peatland Project (CKPP) of Wetlands International and partners has found an effective approach on restoring these peatlands and improving the people's livelihoods. Watch the video online.

Proposed resolution to be adopted at the 5th General Assembly of the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil 20 November 2008 in Bali. The resolution calls for a moratorium on palm oil from tropical peatlands based on the precautionary approach in the RSPO Principles & Criteria, and the formation of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions committee to deliver its findings and recommendations by the 7th RSPO meeting in 2009.

Attached the recommendations on the draft resolutions of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands COP 10, 28 October till 4 November 2008 in Korea.

Mangroves as an ecosystem are capable of performing certain functions or environmental services. Mangrove plants produce organic matter through photosynthesis and this produces the food for most of the fish and shellfish in the coastal waters. Fish and shrimp catches increase with the increasing presence of mangroves in the inter-tidal zone.

Call of global company Unilever for a moratorium on deforestation for palm oil. Weltands International, as a member of the Round Table of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), supports this call.