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Wetland Visitor and Education Centers

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Wetland Visitor Centres, or Wetland Education Centres, can be defined as activities or facilities at or near a wetland which deliver CEPA (Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness Raising) activities to the public. The center may be a large, complex set of buildings that delivers a range of activities, such as the Hong Kong Wetland Park with over half a million visitors per year or, at the other end of the scale, a small community group which supports regular volunteering activities, as examples.

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  • Developing a Wetland Centre. An introductory manual by Wetland Link International, the Global Network of Wetland Centres. 2006.

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  • Handbook on best practice in the planning, design and operation of Wetland Education Centres, ERF (Environmental Ecosystems Research Foundation, RoK) and the Ramsar Convention. 2014

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Rostron, C. (2018). Wetland Visitor and Education Centers. In: Finlayson, C.M., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_245

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