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The ‘Universal Declaration of Rights of Wetlands’, based on a constellation of eight rights around the right to exist, is a pathway for furthering wetlands conservation through ecosystem rights and personhood framing. These rights challenge the notion that nature is to be simply viewed as property to which humans have a right to exploit and manage and instead promote the adoption of a more ‘biocentric’ perspective which recognises nature as an entity with fundamental rights which are to be protected while taking into account human needs. In this webinar, the panelists discuss the ways in which the rights of wetlands support ecological restoration.