Mediterranean wetland restoration: an urgent priority

Healthy, functioning wetlands ensure well-being for people in the Mediterranean by providing good-quality water, by mitigating the negative effects of extreme climatic events, by contributing to food production, and by preserving biodiversity.

Restoring wetlands is an effective solution to ensure the supply of those essential ecosystem services for the Mediterranean Basin and it is the urgent and essential Nature-based solution to the region’s most pressing challenges such as the climate crisis.

This Policy paper was produced by the ‘Wetland-based Solutions project’ in collaboration with the Union for the Mediterranean.