A chain of events will be planned on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the popular resort town of Bodrum to spot World Wetlands Day. The series to be held at the in Bodrum Municipality Meeting and Gallery room starts at 1 p.m. through a press conference and the opening of an presentation. A panel conversation will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the significance and conservation of the wetlands. The World Wetlands Day marks the anniversary of the signing of the meeting on Wetlands on Feb. 2, 1971, in the Iranian Caspian city of Ramsar.

The day was famous for the first time in 1997. Each year, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and citizens’ groups take benefit of the occasion to assume actions aimed at raising public alertness of the values of wetlands, their benefits in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular.