Love people and wetlands with Love a Tree; and Túngara frog calls

People and wetlands: Love a Tree Foundation in Sri Lanka is an exemplar of a people-first wetland charity.

Thank you to educator Narmadha Dangampola and Founder Madhu Dissanayake for their time.

Find out more: https://loveatreefoundation.org/

General updates

Mona Khalil killed https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-j-spalding_monakhalil-orangehouseproject-seaturtles-share-7474140018408701952-wXgp/ https://www.spnl.org/mona-khalil-a-guardian-of-sea-turtles-a-defender-of-hima-and-a-friend-we-will-never-forget/ https://www.facebook.com/greensoutherners/posts/pfbid0Sr3cP6ox7pJqjAfKpa8MR95C7tZCvANi5p8CsbhAApFpeEFhFw4Zs9Ko53hd8gSjl

Atlantic Africa intersectional toolkit https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/iki-media/publication/toward-a-gender-responsive-creaf-project-a-toolkit-for-project-activities-new6a33f355dd07f837753671/

Bits 'n' peatlands

EU https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alfawetlands_restorationforfuture-horizoneurope-peatlands-activity-7474849217765896192-SY_t

Ireland https://courthousenews.com/irelands-turf-cutting-tradition-singled-out-as-flouting-nature-law/ & https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/24/documenting-irelands-vanishing-boglands-they-hold-millennia-in-their-layers & https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-musonda-mumba-aa09611_ramsar-wetlandswednesday-peatlandsmatter-ugcPost-7475626905988374534-cOhQ/

Global Peatlands Initiative https://peatlands.org/event/global-peatlands-initiative-4th-partners-meeting/

Youth engagement in WASH innovation https://knowledge.unicef.org/wash/resource/youth-engagement-wash-innovation-ecosystems-insights-pathways-participation-influence

Jai Prakash Narayan Bird Sanctuary https://www.ramsar.org/news/thats-century-india-names-its-100th-wetland-international-importance

Save the Waves film festival: https://www.savethewaves.org/filmfest/?gf_protect_submission=1#gf_1

Water Margin

Matías Muñoz recorded this Elachistocleis panamensis and Túngara frog Engystomops pustulosus on Barro Colorado Island in Panama three years ago. I found it on the splendid Xeno Canto. https://xeno-canto.org/1012400