Acque Bresciane, Nature as a Strategy
A male bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus), a bird with tawny plumage and a pearl-grey head, scurries among the reeds of the Torbiere del Sebino (Sebino Peat Bogs) Nature Reserve. This environment ...
A valuable COP for undervalued wetlands
COP30 in Brazil is done and dusted. As always, the outcome was mixed with many crying “too little, too slow”, while others pointed to potentially significant progress woven into the fina...
Navigating wetland conservation in challenging political climates
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Convention on Wetlands COP15, which concluded at the end July in Zimbabwe, left me with much f...
World Wetlands Day, the forgotten link to human well-being
The 2nd of February marks World Wetlands Day, in other words, lagoons, bogs, ponds, and lakes. Cradles of often endangered biodiversity covering only 6% of the Earth's surface, and yet these ecosyst...
Acque Bresciane: 1,500 Trees to Protect Peatland Biodiversity
On the 7th of October, an unusual scene played out on a marshland reserve in Northern Italy, on the banks of Lake Iseo in the foothills of the Alps. A team from Acque Bresciane – the util...