Peru: Law No. 32099 for the Protection, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands in the National Territory

The purpose of this law is to establish the principles, approaches, and general rules for the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of wetlands, as well as to prevent, reduce, and mitigate their deterioration through comprehensive, multisectoral, decentralized, and citizen-participatory management. It also seeks to contribute to the mitigation of the negative impacts of climate change on wetlands, including both mitigation and adaptation measures, and to guarantee the provision of the goods and services that these ecosystems offer to people and communities. Compliance with this law is mandatory for the entities of the three levels of government, within the framework of their competencies, as well as for all natural or legal persons, public or private, that develop or plan to develop activities in wetlands and their surrounding areas within the national territory. Wetlands include ecosystems such as mangroves, lagoons, estuaries, lagoons, lagoons, deltas, marshes, lakes, wetlands, springs, puquios, peat bogs and moors, among others that are recognized as such by the National Wetlands Strategy, the National Ecosystems Map of Peru and other legal instruments in force.