VIPS Press Pack: Saving the wetlands Wetlands are one of our most important and fragile environmental resources, yet they are also among the most neglected and abused. To protect and manage the wetlands, we need to know more about them: to do this, we need PROTOWET. Keywords: water management, wetlands, ecosys... Wetlands are one of our most important and fragile environmental resources, yet they are also among the most neglected and abused. To protect and manage the wetlands, we need to know more about them: to do this, we need PROTOWET. Keywords: water management, wetlands, ecosystems, flood control, conservation VIPS: http://cordis.europa.eu/innovation-smes/vips/en/src/en-pp-3-001.htm