EarthTalk: Why Are Wetlands So Important to Preserve?

By Doug Moss

Wetlands serve a variety of important ecological functions including feeding downstream waters, trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, removing pollution and providing fish and wildlife habitat.

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Credit: Bo Eide

Contrary to popular myth that most ocean pollution is oil spilled from ships, most of it is land-based litter.