Luapula River, river in south-central Africa, rising in the Bangweulu Swamps (one of the world's largest wetlands) lying east of Lake Bangweulu in eastern Zambia.
At low-lying wetlands, black pavement ominously disappears into marsh on either side.
Much of the region's key infrastructure has been built upon low-lying wetlands that have been filled in.
While Chinese alligators prefer low-lying wetlands, they were found living in ponds at higher elevations even though the soil was unsuitable for digging burrows.
Because the low-lying wetlands defied Umberto's definition of the origin of the Lualupa, an Anglo-Belgian border commission moved the line further west, to a clearly identifiable point of origin for the river.
But Bangladesh is already one of the world's most environmentally fragile places, densely populated yet braided by river systems, with a labyrinth of low-lying wetlands leading to the Bay of Bengal.
Ducks Unlimited, a conservation group founded by hunters, predicts that the entire low-lying wetlands at the river's mouth, a prime fish nursery, will be inundated by the sea in the next 50 years, meaning that the species the council was working to save would be imperiled again.
The Anglican Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity is known as the Ship of the Fens, a name inspired by the distant views of its towers, which dominate the low-lying wetlands known as "The Fens".
"Our soil analysis is finding that Mayas did not grow maize heavily on the hillsides, but rather along the borders of the low-lying wetlands called bajos," BYU soil scientist Richard Terry said in a statement.
For example, this is evident in New Orleans when we compare the impact of flooding in newer neighborhoods built on risk-prone, low-lying wetlands (i.e., New Orleans East) with older sections of the city that the Spanish and French built at safer higher elevations.
