Rivers, lakes, streams and freshwater wetlands are a key habitat, supporting more than a tenth of all known species, including around a third of vertebrates and half of animals, even though they ...

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going extinct, according to a new, global study that was published on Wednesday.

That’s why the Center works to protect fresh water and the animals and plants who depend on it ... federal protections from countless of our nation’s waterways and wetlands, leaving these critical ...

Freshwater habitats face a multitude of threats ... Despite their value and importance, many lakes, rivers, and wetlands around the world are being severely damaged by human activities and ...

EPA decision limits federal protection to wetlands directly connected to a "water of the ... like cypress and tupelo. And along the coast, freshwater from the river’s mouth and saltwater from the ...

In the last century, two thirds of the world's precious wetlands were lost. Numbers of freshwater animals have declined by three quarters since 1970. People have been affected too. The drying of ...

Losing wetlands pushes thousands of animals and plants toward extinction ... “Safeguarding our wetlands is more urgent now than ever, as fresh water is the most important element for life on Earth. We ...

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

But the world’s wetlands are in crisis. We have lost over a third since 1970. And we are continuing to degrade and destroy them – rivers and reefs, marshes and mangroves, swamps and seagrass beds. The ...