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WETLANDS - IT'S IMPORTANCE TO HUMAN WELL-BEING

by Isaac Abugri | 10-03-2018 23:51 recommendations 1

Wetlands are zones of land where water covers the dirt – all year or exactly at specific circumstances of the year. Wetlands can either be natural or artificial and the water inside a wetland might be static or streaming, crisp, salty or saline. There are even underground wetlands.


Wetlands are a basic piece of our regular habitat. They shield our shores from wave activity, decrease the effects of surges, assimilate toxins and enhance water quality. They give natural surroundings to creatures and plants and numerous contain a wide assorted variety of life, supporting plants and creatures that are discovered no place else.


Wetlands give an essential scope of ecological, social and financial administrations. Numerous wetlands are zones of extraordinary characteristic excellence and numerous are imperative to Native individuals.

Wetlands are the fundamental connection among land and water.

Wetlands go about as normal surge insurance as they trap at that point gradually discharge surface water after some time. This capacity to store water in the midst of expanded precipitation avoids flooding. Depleting wetlands for building advancement and farmlands has expelled a considerable lot of these common guards, leaving encompassing territories helpless against expanded flooding.


Wetlands likewise give employments to neighborhood groups and biodiversity. People who live close to such water bodies, angle in it for their protein necessity and for a few, the fish they offer are their fundamental wellspring of business. The salt mining industry in the Ada Songhor enclave is known to give a great many occupations to the occupants here.

The part of wetlands in decreasing the dangers of catastrophic events can't be thought little of. Prominent among them is the capacity of wetland stores to store carbon which is our real defender notwithstanding environmental change.


In spite of their support, they are regularly under danger from human exercises, which incorporate infringement and contamination.


Here in Ghana, water bodies, for example, the Sakumo Ramsar Site, the Korle and Chemu tidal ponds and the ever prevalent Odaw Waterway (all in Accra), the Kpeshie Tidal pond and the Songhor Tidal pond in Ada (which is additionally a Ramsar Site) are on the whole wetlands however are in an unfortunate state.


Wetlands are essential to every single human life. The UN millennium ecosystem report is of the sentiment that soon Africa would begin encountering catastrophic events which incorporate any semblance of sea tempests, tornadoes, torrents etc.


This they ascribe to our abusing of the earth, wetlands included - which are making us helpless to catastrophic events. There have been a few occurrences where engineers have infringed on wetlands for improvement ventures.

 

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  • Isaac Abugri says :
    Thank you very much Gyeongrin mentor, Joon Ho Mentor and Abass Abdullah, i appreciate all your inputs.

    Joon Ho Mentor, yes, this is my first monthly themeas 20th E-gen member
    Posted 19-03-2018 04:15

  • Gyeongrin mentor says :
    Hello Isaac!

    Your report is very informative and well written. It first engages us to the definition of what a wet land is and then carries it on to the advantageous side of it. Next, it introduces about what kind of support are done to preserve wet land. However despite the effort, wetland still seems to be in danger and the report provides us some specific cases such as the on in Ghana. This report gives us a great insight about wet land problems.
    Thanks for the well written report!
    Keep up on this great work!
    Posted 11-03-2018 12:39

  • Joon Ho Mentor says :
    Hello Isaac, this is your first monthly theme as 20th E-gen members, right?
    Nice to see you again as E-gen family :)

    I just read a couple of your past reports, and you do have your own current of writing skills to share your report with us!
    Especially, pointing out a international news with specific theme makes us keep our eyes on other countries and continent.

    Thanks for sharing, and keep up with your work!
    Posted 11-03-2018 12:04

  • Abass Abdullah says :
    Hello Isaac
    That is amazing, keep it up and thanks for sharing
    Posted 11-03-2018 03:47

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