"wetland" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So much water has already been drawn from the delta that more than 90 per cent of the original wetlands have disappeared, says Yassa.
- These ingenious irrigation systems transformed the original wetland into extremely productive land, farmed until the late 1950s.
- Less than 10% of the original wetland area remains.
- The original wetland was filled in for athletic fields and a new one of equivalent size was excavated and filled with water.
- In the mid-20th century, one third of the original bay had been filled, and only ten percent of original wetlands remained.
- The island has become largely void of wildlife and vegetation, as 97% of the original wetlands around the Detroit River were depleted by 1982.
- Humrickhouse said that solution could be used "only when every alternative for saving the original wetland was exhausted."
- But the original wetland underwent drainage for agricultural purposes beginning in 1897, and by the early 1960s all but 60 ha had been drained.
- An even larger fraction of the world's original wetlands than of its forests has already been destroyed, damaged, or converted.
- Part of the original wetlands were drained and divided among villae rusticae.
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