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DM to host arts contest on wetlands

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Sri Lanka hopes wildlife glories will attract new tourists

SIGIRIYA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - With wetlands and jungles teeming with colourful butterflies and exotic primates,

Tube-worm tortoises to be released (ABC)

Tortoises will be released back into wetlands at Goolwa this morning, after months of rehabilitation.

South Korea land grab killing migratory birds

Seoul - A huge South Korean land reclamation project has destroyed wetlands, killed migratory birds and pushed endangered species toward extinction, a report obtained at the weekend said.

Initiative: Dubai to hold art competition

Dubai The Dubai Municipality Environment Department will hold a competition titled 'Healthy wetlands... Healthy people".

'Iraqi Marshlands Then and Now' opens at Fowler Museum at UCLA Dec. 14

Formed by the overflow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the marshes of southern Iraq once constituted the largest wetlands in western Eurasia and have been inhabited since at least the time of the Sumerians in the late sixth millennium B.C.

Climate change threatens art and tourism, researchers say

ISSUE 162, September 18, 2008: TOURISM in the Northern Territory will be hard hit by climate change, in particular the wetlands of Kakadu National Park, researchers say.

Migrant Birds in Hot Water!

Climate change is a major threat to migratory waterbirds, according to a new report by the British Trust for Ornithology and Wetlands International. Of 235 species of migratory waterbirds protected in Europe and Africa, all except one are experiencing some threat from climate change, and nine species face severe threats that could cause extinction.

Storks already painting Keoladeo sanctuary purple (With Images)

A large variety of birds are converging in Rajasthan's Keoladeo National Park after a gap of almost five years, as this year's ample rainfall has led to wetlands teeming with food to last them through winter.

Student Built Agricultural Camera Heading to the Space Station

A new camera that will assist farmers, ranchers, foresters and educators is heading to the International Space Station. Students and faculty from the University of North Dakota built the Agricultural Camera, known as AgCam, which will be delivered by Space Shuttle Endeavour on the STS-126 mission to the ISS. The astronauts will install the system on the station but once its set up, students will control the camera remotely, sending commands from the Operations Center at UND. AgCam will take images in visible and infrared light of growing crops, rangeland, grasslands, forests and wetlands in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. "The beauty of the AgCam is the combination of features it has to provide important data to a wide variety of people", George Seielstad, the director of AgCam at told Universe Today.

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