The word "wetland" is an acceptable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to an area of land that is saturated with water or contains a lot of standing water, like a swamp or marsh. For example: "The wetlands near my house attract a variety of unique bird species."
"Without the full protection of the Clean Water Act, critical wetland habitats across the country will be degraded or destroyed, undermining the recovery of dozens of endangered species," Hartl wrote in a statement.
Information on wetland reserves from riservenaturali.maranolagunare.com and vallecavanata.it.
facebook.com/beachstreetresort, +91 942 388 2600 Baggins123 This hotel is in a stunning setting amid the wetland of Mandrem beach.
Millions of hectares of coastal wetlands, including mangroves, have been cleared to make room for shrimp ponds excavated a meter deep into the wetland substrate then filled with briny water and shrimp.
A wetland expert in Shanghai asks that critical remarks about Chongming's plans not be attributed to him (he frets that a profusion of wind turbines, and an increase in the island's population, could threaten Chongming's birds).
Visions of ecopolis Computers that read your mind An even brighter idea Lighting up the world Concrete possibilities Secrets of the digital detectives Mr BlackBerry sends a message ReprintsThen there is the wetland.
Experts have said for years that without drastic action America's largest subtropical wetland was in grave danger, along with endangered species such as the Florida panther and the American crocodile.
The Ramsar Convention is about wetland conservation, CMS covers migratory species, CITES deals with trade in endangered species, and Montreal concerns ozone depletion.
Such transactions are, however, meaningless unless ecologists can confirm that a newly constructed piece of wetland has real environmental benefits.
Researchers are still learning about what, precisely, makes one piece of wetland equivalent to another.
Last year the central government put the wetland under state protection, although Yu Weidong, an ornithologist at Shanghai Normal University, dryly observes that it took two decades of lobbying to achieve this.
