Wetlands: vital, vulnerable, vanishing

Wetlands are critical to life on earth.

They reduce the impacts of floods, filter pollutants and provide vital habitat for countless plant and animal species. Wetlands regulate our climate and sequester more carbon per acre than any other ecosystem on earth.

Yet, these beautiful and biodiverse ecosystems are at immediate risk – disappearing three times faster than forests.

Since European occupation, at least two thirds of Victoria’s wetlands have been destroyed and what’s left is threatened due to over use of precious water resources, urban development, pollution and poor land management practices.

Invasive species, land clearing and the way rivers are managed also impact our precious wetlands, which are critical for society, for the environment and for the economy.

Hundreds of species of wetland plants and animals are already extinct. Future generations should not have to visit museums to imagine the lost natural world.

But there is a solution

Wetland Revival Trust works with Traditional Owners to protect, connect and restore high value wetlands, waterways and their catchments through landscape-scale programs in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin.

Find out more about the threats to the wetlands of the Southern Murray-Darling Basin in our Case for Support.

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