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| Seasonal wetlands appear in the form of shallow water in rainy season. Source: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/173CF/production/_92638159_dsc_0630.jpg |
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on an article with the same title posted by BBC on November 25, 2016
Ephemeral wetlands are ecosystems which only appear
temporarily in rainy season. These kind of ecosystems can be found in the US,
Greece, and South Africa. These unique wetlands are habitats for a lot of
peculiar plants and animals especially the aquatic ones which do not live in
permanent wetlands. Nevertheless, the seasonal wetlands are predicted to become
endangered in the future because of some reasons. Consequently, those unique
species are also on the edge of local extinction.
The first factor threatening the sustainability of
ephemeral wetlands is people who are in attempt to dig up or make them
permanent. As a result, people indirectly exchange the peculiar special in
ephemeral wetlands with the new species. Another factor is climate change
causing unpredictable rainfall and temperature patterns. To preserve the
ephemeral wetlands, there have to be credible records about the ecosystems and
species inhabiting there. Through that action, further law supporting the precious
ecosystems can be initiated.
Preserving such unique ecosystems is not an easy
task. Therefore, I suppose that not only experts but also ordinary people have
to take fast and real actions in a good collaboration. That action is very
necessary to be done since those ecosystems will as well affect human’s life. Just
in case they do not influence our lives, we still have to save them as they
consist of living creatures, and it is our responsibility to prove that we deserve
to be called human.
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