Sentence examples similar to immense wetlands from inspiring English sources
Nearly 5,000 years ago the sea level was lower and this was an immense freshwater wetland.
My decade-long experience with Arctic Alaska summers afforded me great exposure to the world of migratory birdsas migrants from all continents and oceans came to breed in the immense coastal plain wetlands and tundra.
This vast habitat is the world's largest freshwater wetland - an immense, landlocked river delta covering large part of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul and tracts of Bolivia and Paraguay. .
The Brazilian landscape is immense and complex, with interspersed rivers, wetlands, mountains, and plateaus adjoining other major features and traversing the boundaries of states and regions.
Warming is also affecting wetlands and forests around the world, helping to desiccate immense peat bogs in Indonesia, contributing to more frequent drought in the Amazon basin, and propelling a widening beetle infestation that's killing enormous tracts of pine forest in Alaska and British Columbia.
Despite its uniquely urban and industrial character, the Bay is of immense ecological value and encompasses over 90% of California's remaining coastal wetlands.
The fact is that even before the BP Oil Spill, the Gulf Coast and the Gulf of Mexico itself were under siege from damage to wetlands, a poorly regulated oil and gas industry, rising seas, an immense marine "dead zone," invasive species, and damaged ecosystems.
"At the root of this is a commitment from the Bush administration to achieve the goal of no net loss of wetlands," he said, adding that these waters "function as nature's kidneys" and "add immense value to economic and aesthetic bounties of this country".
Wetlands are being restored.
