[3] This day serves to highlight the influence and positive production that wetlands have had on the world and brings communities together for the benefit of Mother Nature.[4] Since 1998, the Ramsar Secretariat has partnered with Danone Group Evian Fund for Water (based out of Paris and founded in Barcelona, Spain) for financial support.For the Ramsar Secretariat, also known as Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, this financial support has produced a variety of outreach materials including logos, posters, factsheets, handouts and guide documents to support countries' activities organized to celebrate WWD.These materials are available for free download on the World Wetlands Day website in the three languages of the convention: English, French, and Spanish.Countries organize a variety of events to raise awareness such as; lectures, seminars, nature walks, children's art contests, sampan races, community clean-up days, radio and television interviews, letters to newspapers, to the launch of new wetland policies, new Ramsar Sites and new programs at the national level.
