This year, for the first time, the World Wetland Day will be celebrated at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. REC Poland will be presenting "Kampinos Wetlands" project on this event.

The full program of this event is available below:

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome participants

9:15 - 9:45 Wetlands and the climate.
Magdalena Suchora (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin)

9:45 - 10:15 Wetlands and their protection under the Ramsar Convention in Poland and in the world.
Andrzej Różycki (Poleski National Park)

10:15 - 10:45 "To the swamps and to the forest" - a film about the Poleski National Park
Andrzej Różycki (Poleski National Park)

10:45 - 11:10 CONTEST of knowledge about wetlands

11:10 - 11:30 BREAK

11:30 - 12:15 Protection of wetlands - examples from the "Kaminos Wetlands" project.
Barbara Grzebulska (Regional Environmental Center, Poland)

12:15 - 13:00 Olmany Swamps in Belarus - wild, beautiful and ... threatened.
Krzysztof Wojciechowski (Team of Lublin Landscape Parks)

13:00 - 13:15 BREAK

13:15 - 14:15 WORKSHOPS - to choose from (Aula, laboratories, WNoZiGP's own rooms)

13:15 - 14:15 International problems of migratory birds of wetlands - the campaign "Birds Unite Us"
Barbara Grzebulska 

13:15 -13: 45 Swamp under the magnifying glass - animals. Microscopic workshop
Magdalena Suchora, Joanna Jarosz, Piotr Kulesza

13:45 - 14:15 Swamp under the magnifying glass - animals. Microscopic workshop
Magdalena Suchora, Joanna Jarosz, Piotr Kulesza 

13:15 -13: 45 Swamp under the magnifying glass - plants. Microscopic workshop
Aleksandra Bober, Jarosław Pietruczuk, Katarzyna Nowak

13:45 - 14:15 Swamp under the magnifying glass - plants. Microscopic workshop
Aleksandra Bober, Jarosław Pietruczuk, Katarzyna Nowak 

13:15 - 14:15 The strangest substance of the world and climate change - laboratory classes. Research and experimentally on the properties of water.
Łukasz Franczak, Jagoda Ziewiec 

13:15 - 14:15 Wetlands and climate - role-playing game.
Sylwester Wereska, Agnieszka Krzyżewska

13:15 - 14:15 movie "Enchanted Marshes"
Krzysztof Wojciechowski

13:45 - 14:15 Wetland anatomy, or "scalpel", into a peat bog in search of knowledge about the past
Magdalena Suchora, Kamil Kultys