The city wanted to fill in the wetland and build soccer and baseball fields.
About 5, 000 whooper swans and 3, 000 Bewick's winter at the Welney Wetland Trust near Downham Market.
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Wetland loss in coastal Louisiana is not like in other areas of the country.
The Environment Agency is creating 15 acres of new wetland called Brims Pill, near Awre in Gloucestershire.
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This wetland tract of Nicaragua, after all, is said to boast more biodiversity than all of Europe.
Wigan is famous for its Flashes - flooded areas of mining subsidence which are home to wetland species.
European settlers drained many swamps when they began farming this area, resulting in a loss of wetland habitat.
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The GVKBR consists of four clusters: Raifa Forest, Sarali Land between Rivers, Spassk Insular Archipelago, Sviyzhsk Wetland Area.
Fry is president of the Great Fen Project, which aims to create a 3, 700 hectare wetland in the county.
In addition to over 300, 000 wetland plants, organizers have planted more than 4, 000 trees and 130, 000 plants and bulbs.
Caimans are usually found in the wetland regions of Central and South America.
The landscape is an intricate patchwork quilt of woodland, forest, parkland and wetland, with 30% covered with lakes and waterways.
The new Thrupp Lake Wetland Centre, which will be solar-powered, will include a learning area and have a reedbed filtration system.
Such an approach has the potential to ease the risk of flooding and create valuable new wetland habitat for breeding birds.
"Storm vulnerability is made worse by ongoing wetland loss and barrier island erosion, " according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.
The CALNI group said it is also adjacent to a European Special Protected Area of Special Scientific Interest and protected wetland.
The people who live here, who can identify a particular bend in the road or hayfield or sensitive wetland or bog?
One delegate, for example, told the conference of a wetland south of Kampala, Uganda's capital, that works as the city's sewerage system.
But he has yet to actively intervene to make sure New Orleans gets state-of-the-art flood protection and robust and timely coastal wetland reconstruction.
Most people are familiar only with wetland and weedy species, but in fact many of our best candidates for natural lawns are sedges.
Basically, it's an inventive method of wetland farming conducive to the area, whose freshwater springs and shallow waters made it an ideal place for chinampa agriculture.
The agency says the area, near the Slimbridge Wetland Centre, is of "international importance" for migrating wildfowl, breeding waders, migratory fish and Atlantic eels.
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Another outbreak of the weed caused extensive damage to a number of important wetland habitats, including Exminster Marshes in Devon, earlier in the year.
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Kakadu is a tropical wetland criss-crossed by rivers full of crocodiles that eat people (along with dogs, horses and anything else they can grab).
Because of this vital role of the wetland area, South West Water is playing a big role in the project, which runs until 2015.
They can also support the protection and restoration of wetland ecosystems.
The Great Fen Project aims to create the wetland between Huntingdon and Peterborough by obtaining land adjacent to the Holme Fen and Woodwalton Fen nature reserves.
The participating pupils enthusiastically found the pH of a sample of water from Intaka Island (a wetland in Cape Town) and thereafter filtered and purified the water.
It borders the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve which was designated under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland habitat of international importance and a special protection area.
The Wildlife Trust, Natural England, the RSPB and members of the public were among those concerned that breeding wetland birds and otters would be adversely affected by the boathouse.
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