ollowing your News story 'Putting China's wetlands on the map' (Nature 458, 134; 2009) and the related Correspondence 'Time for China to restore its natural wetlands' (Nature 459, 321; 2009), we also wish to stress the need to manage and protect China's existing wetlands, and to remind delegates to the International Congress for Conservation Biology, starting in Beijing on 11 July, of these global