Hello friends in our beloved #steem-environment community. How are you. Well today coincides with the commemoration of World Wetlands Day. I will review it a bit below.
Wetlands are terrestrial ecosystems with land areas that are inundated with water, either permanently or seasonally. Wetlands are classified as swamps, peatlands, rivers, deltas, lakes, shallow bays, and mangroves.
According to some sources, the area of the world's mangrove forests is 16.53 million hectares, and 20% of that area is in Indonesia. As an ecosystem located in a transitional area between the sea and land, the mangrove ecosystem has an important function for both nature and humans, especially those living in the vicinity.
Mangrove ecosystems play a role as a provider of nutrients and soil fertility, play a major role in the food chain, purify water, protect beaches from abrasion, become important habitats for many species ranging from marine biota, insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds. Not only that, mangrove forests also have great benefits for the people who live around them, namely as a source of food, have tourism potential that can improve the community's economy, and become an important source of knowledge for the community.
Peat is one of the wetland ecosystems that plays an important role in storing carbon in nature. Data from various sources shows that peatlands in Indonesia store 57 gigatons or 20 times that of tropical rain forests. When peatlands dry up, these ecosystems are highly flammable and difficult to control, and release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
Peat restoration is a long process to restore the ecological function of degraded and dry peatlands. There are three steps to restoring peatlands, namely re-wetting and maintaining water levels (rewetting), replanting critical land with native plants of the peat ecosystem (revegetation), and empowering local communities around peatlands to maintain their sustainability. peatlands. peatland (revitalization).greetings for environmental sustainability
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Thank you crater for posting, what a great post my friend
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