For example, recent reports indicate forceful evictions and ongoing environmental degradation by oil companies in the Sudd Wetlands, the world largest swamplands of the world.
Over the years the ISI has rigged elections and helped nurture militant groups used to project force (always with plausible deniability) into India and Afghanistan.These days those gun-toting jihadis are one bog within a larger swampland of militancy, much of it increasingly focussed on massacring Pakistani Shias, that is threatening its native country as much as its neighbours.
The northern portion of the county lies in Fall Line hills, whereas the southern part consists of flat Coastal Plain terrain with large areas of swampland.
Around the 5th century an impressive system of fortifications consisting of ditches and earthworks was built along the northern periphery of Tikal's hinterland, joining up with the natural defenses provided by large areas of swampland lying to the east and west of the city.
On July 21 , 1853 the New York Legislature authorized the city to buy largely barren swampland for a "central park".
Built on former swampland in 1999, the large gated community has more than 40,000 residents, who have their own luxury harbour, shopping malls, sports clubs and medical centre.
The work required the creation of large embankments and lasted until 1683; the swampland around the bastion was not fully drained until 1687.
There are large areas of forestland, heaths, peat bogs, and swampland, and lakes are numerous.
Bol belongs to a tribe of herdsmen called the Dinkas, who inhabit the swamplands in the southern section of Africa's largest country.
In eastern Europe and Yugoslavia, the Resistance came to control large tracts of land in more inaccessible areas such as forests, mountain ranges, and swamplands.
In Florida, the snakes have led to large declines in raccoons, rabbits and bobcats, while the nutria have ripped up ecologically sensitive swampland in Lousiana.
