Images can be powerful through their impact or beauty or illustrate an environmental or conservation story that reveals the importance of wetlands for nature and/or for people. Morgan Heim (USA) ...
Human activities that lead to loss of wetlands include drainage and infilling for agriculture and construction, pollution, overfishing and overexploitation of resources, invasive species and ...
Though the grey-headed swamphen is currently listed as "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List, habitat destruction, particularly the draining of wetlands, can affect their populations.
Much greater attention must therefore be given to the protection and restoration of wetlands, which play such a vital role in environmental sustainability. Draining wetlands and converting them to ...
Anna Moeller, an Elgin Democrat, introduced companion bills in the Illinois General Assembly that would establish a permitting program to protect wetlands from pollution and draining. If passed ...
A combination of hunting and draining of their wetland homes for agriculture led to their disappearance. They returned to Britain in the early 20th Century but numbers were very low when the first ...