| The land companies began to dredge canals through the marshlands, opening easy access from the settled towns on land to the gulf. |
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| The Basra reed warbler is a near-endemic species of Iraq whose last stronghold is the Mesopotamian marshlands to the north of Basra. |
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| And off to the right, you can see all the wetlands and marshlands that lead to the Lakes. |
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| He was charged with many aspects of land management in the marshlands he knows so well. |
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| To the west, a thick patch of forest stretched all the way to the sea, punctuated in several places by vast marshlands and winding rivers. |
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| The large areas of woodland, moors, marshlands and lowlands around east Lancashire were obviously difficult to manage from the castle. |
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| But that's what those marshlands are designed to do, to act as natural water basins, to trap some of this water and protect these areas. |
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| He tracks them through the forest and marshlands and finally finds that they have taken refuge inside a shack on the riverbank. |
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| Subsidence of drained marshlands caused gas pipeline fractures, resulting in several dramatic explosions. |
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| They had learned to dike and farm the tidal marshlands along the Bay of Fundy. |
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| The marshlands thereabouts remained very brumous for most of the winters. |
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| Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes. |
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| Thought to be named after the cranes which feed on them, cranberries proliferate in the boggy marshlands of the Canadian and North American seaboard. |
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| In Northern Europe, societies were able to live well on rich food supplies from the marshlands fostered by the warmer climate. |
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| Blue Carbon coastal ecosystems include mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and saltwater marshlands, which serve as carbon sinks. |
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| They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands. |
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| In northern Europe, for example, societies were able to live well on rich food supplies from the marshlands created by the warmer climate. |
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| Since sea levels were low due to so much water tied up in glaciers, such marshlands would have occurred all along the southern coasts of Eurasia. |
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| However, many Asian countries such as China are still to recognise the value of marshlands. |
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| These hydraulic engineering works were carried out to protect marshlands from inundation, and to improve the water supply of the Port of Hamburg. |
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| Sujata Gupta ventured into the marshlands and Gulf of Mexico with Brad Robin, a man from a line of generations of oystermen in southeastern Louisiana. |
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| In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from Liverpool, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marshlands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. |
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| Although the species is not threatened, products such as musk zibata were formerly produced from the muskrat Ondatra zibethicus, which lives on the Louisiana marshlands. |
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| Due to the malarial marshlands, it was not a popular place to work and for that reason Woolwich dockyard workers were paid as much as a third more than in other naval towns. |
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| And now, a whole new group of people has recolonized the marshlands, just like the new coconut trees that sprout up where old ones were blown over. |
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| During the Middle Ages the area was covered with forests and marshlands. |
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| The two countries had agreed to resume talks on Sir Creek, a 96 km strip in the Rann of Kutch marshlands of Gujarat, and the Wullar Barrage built on river Jhelum in Kashmir. |
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| They are almost always next to flat marshlands, the geest being higher and better protected against flood but, compared to the marsh, with poor soil for agriculture. |
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