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  2. Wetland conservation - Wikipedia

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    A wetland (aerial view) Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas of land including marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens that are covered by water seasonally or permanently due to a variety of threats from both natural and anthropogenic hazards. Some examples of these hazards include habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species.

  3. Wetland - Wikipedia

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    The life forms of a wetland system includes its plants and animals and microbes (bacteria, fungi). The most important factor is the wetland's duration of flooding. [1] Other important factors include fertility and salinity of the water or soils.

  4. Marine coastal ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Coastal wetlands also reduce pollution from human waste, [41] [42] remove excess nutrients from the water column, [43] trap pollutants, [44] and sequester carbon. [45] Further, near-shore wetlands act as both essential nursery habitats and feeding grounds for game fish, supporting a diverse group of economically important species. [46] [47] [48 ...

  5. Charity to create 'life-saving' wetland for birds - AOL

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    A charity wants to create a "life-saving" winter wetland area for wading birds that are in decline. The Countryside Regeneration Trust (CRT) wants to raise £8,000 to create the space at Lark Rise ...

  6. Portal:Wetlands - Wikipedia

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    A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem. The primary factor that distinguishes wetlands from other land forms or water bodies is the characteristic vegetation of aquatic plants , adapted to the unique hydric soil .

  7. Opinion: Habitat for all — how housing and biodiversity can ...

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    Indeed, the concentration of the human population in urban areas is an important strategy to combat habitat loss. But the linkage between our own development and our devouring of the world is ...

  8. World Wetlands Day - Wikipedia

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    Children celebrating World Wetlands Day. World Wetlands Day is an environmentally related celebration which dates back to the year 1971 when several environmentalists gathered to reaffirm protection and love for wetlands, [1] which are water ecosystems containing plant life and other organisms that bring ecological health in abundance to not only water bodies but environments as a whole.

  9. Wildlife conservation - Wikipedia

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    Monitoring of wildlife populations is an important part of conservation because it allows managers to gather information about the status of threatened species and to measure the effectiveness of management strategies. Monitoring can be local, regional, or range-wide, and can include one or many distinct populations.