Aussie Wetlands

by Blair Stuart

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Aussie Wetlands

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Blair Stuart

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Photograph - Digital Images

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Wetlands are important and valued environments for many reasons.
They are highly productive ecosystems, and are able to capture energy and provide food for many animals.
They provide important refuges for wildlife in times of drought.
They are naturally beautiful places and provide opportunities for recreation activities such as boating, swimming, bushwalking and bird watching.
They provide a natural water balance in the landscape and help to provide protection against floods.
They have a role in providing water quality protection in the catchment by filtering pollutants such as sediments, nutrients, organic and inorganic matter and bacteria.
They support a wide variety of flora (plants) and fauna (animals) and form different habitats and ecosystems.
They provide nursery areas for fish, and breeding grounds for wildlife, particularly waterbirds.
Wetlands provide vital habitat for some species of threatened fauna (animals).
They provide refuge for migratory waterbirds that breed in the northern hemisphere in countries such as China and Siberia. Thousands of migratory waterbirds inhabit Australian wetlands each year.
Many wetlands, are of cultural significance to aboriginal people.
They provide opportunities for scientific research and are a source of education for the community.

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June 29th, 2012

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