Get involved to raise funds to help restore balance in some of the richest freshwater ecosystems in the world: The Amazon and the Ganges.

These funds will help support the work of three major WWF Freshwater Initiatives River Dolphins, Free Flowing Rivers and Asian Flyways. In particular, the work in India and Brazil will help to safeguard the Ganges river dolphin in India (recently designated a separate species thanks to a scientific paper co-authored by WWF) and the pink river dolphin in the Tapajós river basin in the Amazon among the six species covered by the global River Dolphins initiative. Support will be focussed on securing habitats particularly free flowing rivers for the two species, which will contribute to halting the current decline in their numbers and subsequently boost efforts to bend the curve and increase their populations.

Ensuring the health of critical river dolphin rivers and restoring vital wetlands will also provide benefits to people and other species. Healthy free flowing rivers sustain freshwater fisheries that feed hundreds of millions, help to reduce the impact of extreme floods and droughts, build more resilient societies and economies, and supply the sediment that keeps the worlds deltas above the rising seas. Protecting and restoring healthy wetlands in Asia are also critical to the great Asian Flyways both to the millions of birds that migrate along them and also the communities that depend on the wetland stepping stones along the way.

So get involved and raise funds to help restore balance in some of the richest freshwater ecosystems in the world!