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  2. Wetland conservation - Wikipedia

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    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. Yanga National Park - Wikipedia

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    The major threat facing the condition of the wetlands in Yanga National Park is the alteration of natural flow regimes. There has been an overall reduction to flows to this area due to river regulation (dam and weir), water diversion, and alteration of flows within floodplains with levees and structures. [34] [35]

  4. Threats to wetlands - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Threats to wetlands

  5. Freshwater ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Environmental threats to rivers include loss of water, dams, chemical pollution and introduced species. [14] A dam produces negative effects that continue down the watershed. The most important negative effects are the reduction of spring flooding, which damages wetlands, and the retention of sediment, which leads to the loss of deltaic ...

  6. Tantramar Marshes - Wikipedia

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    Tintamarre Marshes consists of 1960 hectares that consist primarily of wetlands and historic agricultural land. [2] Two additional units to the area are being proposed but unofficial, surrounding Hog Lake and Towers Goose Lake. [1] National Wildlife areas like Tintamarre are created to manage and protect native wildlife. [3]

  7. Wetlands provide $23 billion in flood control across ...

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    Wetland loss between 2009 and 2019 accelerated by more than 50% from the five prior years. And a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling raises more concerns. Wetlands provide $23 billion in flood control ...

  8. Aquatic ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Environmental threats to rivers include loss of water, dams, chemical pollution and introduced species. [14] A dam produces negative effects that continue down the watershed. The most important negative effects are the reduction of spring flooding, which damages wetlands, and the retention of sediment, which leads to the loss of deltaic ...

  9. Cape Lowland Freshwater Wetland - Wikipedia

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    3 Threats and Conservation. 4 See also. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Cape Lowland Freshwater Wetland is a critically endangered vegetation type of the ...