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02 February 2021
by WWF last modified 02 February 2021
Up to 87% of global wetlands have been lost in the past 300 years, 1/3 of those just since 1970.
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The world s wetland blindness is inexplicable given the pivotal role of healthy wetlands in delivering global commitments on climate change, sustainable development & biodiversity. Wetland loss has significantly contributed to the huge loss of species populations over the same period. The Danube and its main tributaries have seen 80% of their wetlands disappear over the past 150 years and the natural water flow in the river bed has been interrupted by dams. Damage to the river has mainly been caused by diking, river regulation and damming to meet the needs of hydroelectric power, navigation, agriculture and flood prevention projects.
thing.but we ve got people in the shrimpers, the oystermen, store and marine owners, ice house, you name it, they d like their life back, like the gulf back, like the wetlands back, like everything to be like it was before this explosion on this rig and after the careless operations that were performed by bp. congressman, i think the word is evasive. tony hayward was evasive today. i think you ll greet to that. you re being polite. okay. do you think that this motivates you and your colleagues in congress to be even tougher on bp because they ve had somewhat of a callus attitude throughout all of this? we re going to continue to the thing that bothered me the most was when joe barton made the statement about apologizing to bp. joe needs to come down to south louisiana and visit with these people who are looking at their businesses empty when they re at the peak of their seasons or the boats that are parked or the oyster and shrimp houses that