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by Alesandra Ibobo | 10-03-2018 18:54
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This topic is one which most people especially here in Africa are not particularly interested in as individuals, especially when we don't reside close to regions where the swamps are located, and if we do, because they are characterized by slow-moving to stagnant waters, and are considered a breeding place for insects like the dragon flies, crickets, amphibians and mosquitoes which causes malaria one of the deadliest diseases in infants and children. Residents close to these swamps results into draining the swamps and perhaps use them for dumpings or channel their drainages/ sewages to it.
So I'd like to throw more light on swamps and its untapped resources. Swamps are, according to WWF (half the world's wetland have disappeared since 1900. Development and conversion continue to pose major threats to wetland despite its value and importance of economic value). Agriculture and extensive farming activities like rice fields is one of the amazing resources of the swamps and wetlands. These farms helps in beautification of the environment, purification of oxygen and regulating the temperature. Source: world Atlas The fish farm is also carried out in the rice fields as they eat harmful insects in the field and their waste helps in fertilizing the soil. In farming, swamps can serve as a source of free irrigation water and organic fertilizer for crops as I pointed out above, and also animals get pastures for it. So it's a good way of curbing food shortage in one's country. Having outline these, government should invest on conservation of these swamps and wetland and also provide an alternative residential area of settlement for people living close to these swampy areas, and discourage people from living close to swamps because of the environmental and health hazards it has caused over the years. Lives of animals and aquatic species are endangered as well as the lives of the citizens, due to the channelling of drainage system and toxic c chemicals and waste materials into these swamps.
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8 Comments
Thanks, Gyeongrin.
Posted 12-03-2018 01:43
@Yves shema, Thanks. The governments will surely hear when more voices are raised on this topic. we are ambassadors for change and they'll hear our voice
Posted 12-03-2018 01:39
Hi Alesandra!!
People tend not to pay attention to problems which they aren't directly facing. However one thing that we must keep in mind is that the environment is everyone's problem. So I hope more people to pay attention to these swamp problem before things get irreversible.
Thanks for reminding us about this topic!!
Great work!
Posted 11-03-2018 12:22
wow, wonderful job. the government should invest in conserving these swamps for sure, and the should provide some incentives for their people so that they may find else where to live but not near the swamps, if not of course malaria will kill more and more people because in those swamps is where those female mosquitoes develop quickly,, thanks Alesandra to remind me all of above.
Posted 11-03-2018 05:02
@Joon Ho, Thanks
Posted 11-03-2018 00:08
@sumit, I know right. I wish most of us in this part of the world would seize these opportunities in wetlands
Posted 11-03-2018 00:04
Hi, i like the concept of fish farming in the swamps. This multipurpose technique should be followed by the locals.
Posted 10-03-2018 23:21
Hello Alesandra, I see ancillary effect and advantages from swamps in your report.
It reminds me of working on conservation itself would not help ecosystem and human livings get along together around wetlands (and swamps).
Thanks for reminding other ambassadors who read this report of it too!
Posted 10-03-2018 22:11