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Global Nature Fund, established in 1998, is a private non-profit foundation with the stated goal of protecting the environment.[1] It is headquartered in Radolfzell, Germany.
The organization, which sponsors the Living Lakes Network, marks World Wetlands Day annually by designating a water body as "Threatened Lake of the Year".[2] In 2004 it signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Ramsar.[3]
Threatened Lake of the Year
- 2004 Lake Chapala:Mexico[4]
- 2005 Lake Victoria: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda[5]
- 2006 Dead Sea: Jordan, Israel and Palestine[6]
- 2007 Pantanal: Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia[7]
- 2008 Mahakam Wetland: Indonesia[8]
- 2009 Lake Atitlán: Guatemala[9]
- 2010 Pulicat Lake: India[10]
- 2011 Laguna de Fúquene: Colombia[11]
- 2012 Lake Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia[12]
- 2013 Lake Winnipeg: Canada[13]
- 2014 Lake Sampaloc, Philippines
- 2015 Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia
- 2016 Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
- 2017 Lake Tanganyika, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia
- 2018 Lake Bolgoda and Lake Madampe, Sri Lanka
- 2019 Lake Nokoué, Benin
- 2020 Albufera Lake, Spain
- 2021 Pantanal Wetlands, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
- 2022 Lake Malawi, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania
- 2023 Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Peru
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