9. We need to educate the public and private
sectors to redefine the way that we now think of
the protection, management and restoration of
wetlands around the world. The impacts of
climate change will differ regionally. Within
some regions a number of wetlands will
disappear from the landscape, especially those
drier end systems and systems that are already
under stress and their resiliency has been
compromised. Many wetlands may ‘drift’ spatially
within the region due to changes in
precipitation and PET rates depending upon
future land use, topography and hydro-patterns.