World Wetland Day
On February 2nd we celebrate World Wetlands Day! This year’s World Wetlands Day Theme is “It’s Time for Wetlands Restoration”. It highlights the urgent need to prioritize wetland restoration, and calls on an entire generation to take steps to revive and restore degraded wetlands. Wetlands are areas that are flooded with water for the majority of the year, where life has evolved to exist in these flooded, oxygen-less conditions.
Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests. 35% of the world’s wetlands have disappeared in the last 50 years. That’s why it is urgent that we raise national and global awareness about wetlands in order to reverse their rapid loss and encourage actions to conserve and restore them. If you are interested in learning more about this click HERE.
The Smart Yards Co-Op Team invites you to participate in this year’s wetland celebration World Wetlands Day and join this year's hashtags, sharing this information with an inspirational note about your love or knowledge of the importance of wetlands with #GenerationRestoration and #ForWetlands.
For the Smart Yards Co-op team, and the community, we're so grateful to work with observing how world wetlands perform a number of vital functions for the land and we honor their myriad of benefits such as:
They are the main source of groundwater refills
Purify water (Freshwater availability)
They have a lot of biodiversity, large numbers of animals, plants and birds
Prevent soil erosion
Offer protection against flooding
Contribute with climate mitigation and adaptation
Contribute with world economies and much more
We can just dream of having a wetland in our own backyards. And there are ways in which we can help our ecosystem while conserving wetlands. When we, Smart Yards Co-op team design and install greywater systems like the photos above of a Laundry To Landscape system we reuse, reduce and recharge the groundwater basin, just like the wetlands. We also do the same when we design rain garden, get that water from our roofs to the ground to create rich and lush gardens and at the same time build a more resilient urban community. Also we’re being part of creating a more beautiful California one yard at a time with native plant garden that invites and embraces life, native fauna: birds, small mammals, insects, and butterflies, supports ecosystems and enriches our native soil.
Let's take a step forward to helping our nature, and we can all dream of a better and greener planet for our future generations.
“We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the planet”