wetland protection
Saving soggy ecosystems
Wetland protection refers to legal and conservation efforts to preserve marshes, swamps, bogs, and other water-saturated lands.
Wetlands filter water, control flooding, and support diverse wildlife, making their destruction ecologically costly.
Protection typically involves restricting development, regulating drainage, and restoring damaged areas: The new wetland protection laws prevented the developer from filling in the marsh.
- Ramsar ConventionInternational wetland protection treaty
- protected areasZones with legal conservation status
- nature reserveProtected habitat area
- flood mitigationReducing overflow damage risk
- water filtrationRemoving impurities from liquid
water quality · biodiversity · buffer zones · habitat restoration · climate change impacts · carbon sequestration · zoning laws · endangered species · revegetation · coastal marshes · climate regulation · Clean Water Act · wildlife corridors · marsh · spawning · preserve · ducks · duck hunting
wetland protectionhabitat destruction
Eliminating natural living spaces
wetland protectionland reclamation
Creating ground from water
drainage · dredging · channelization · ditching · coastal development