Wetlands day

An indigenous Aeta woman joins other volunteers in planting mangrove saplings during the celebration of World Wetlands Day at the Malawaan-Binictican mangrove area at the Subic Bay Freeport. Celebrated every Feb. 2 each year, World Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on Feb. 2, 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Butch Gunio