Views on Wetlands

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What do you think, Why should wetlands be preserved or restored? Want to know you view on this....thanks

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  1. liked everyones responses. Thanks everyone, in my country I am working for wetland preservation. Govt knows the advantages of wetland but still we have to fight to preserve wetlands. Local people knows the importance of wetland in their life, that is at least a good part.

  2. Wetlands prevent flooding by holding water much like a sponge. By doing so, wetlands help keep river levels normal and filter and purify the surface water.Wetlands accept water during storms and whenever water levels are high. When water levels are low, wetlands slowly release water.Because of its many cleansing benefits, wetlands have been compared to kidneys. The analogy is good one. Wetlands and kidneys both help control water flow and cleanse the system.Wetlands also clean the water by filtering out sedimentation, decomposing vegetative matter and converting chemicals into useable form. The ability of wetlands to recycle nutrients makes them critical in the overall functioning of earth. No other ecosystem is as productive, nor as unique in this conversion process. In some places artificial wetlands were developed solely for the purpose of water purification.

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    wetlands are essential ecological features in any landscape. They are primary habitat for hundreds of species of waterfowl as well as many other birds, fish, mammals and insects.Wetlands prevent soil erosion, and they buffer water bodies from potentially damaging land use activities such as agriculture. And wetlands can remove and store greenhouse gases from the Earth’s atmosphere, slowing the onset of global warming.

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    Felcia, Wetlands are defined as ‘lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic eco-systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water (Mitsch & Gosselink 1986). As an ecosystem, wetlands are useful for nutrient recovery and cycling, releasing excesses nitrogen, removing toxins, chemicals and heavy metals through absorption by plants and also in the treatment of waste water. Wetlands also help in mitigating floods, recharging aquifers and reducing surface run-off and erosion. These are some of the reasons that wetlands should be conserved.