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… instead? Communities • Find out how the wetlands in your area are being used or overused - and who depends on them. How do wetlands protect your area during extreme events? • Adopt practices that ensure … • Designate wetlands in flood- and storm-prone zones as protected areas. • Restore degraded wetlands that act as …

… of time, we can designate flood- and storm-prone areas as protected wetlands to strengthen nature’s own buffer. The Biosphere Reserve of the Saloum Delta in Senegal is an area of estuaries, lakes and marshes. It controls flooding … In Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka where offshore coral reefs are protected through a marine park, the damage from the 2004 …

… floods, they can spread and store flood water over a wide area, reducing damage downstream. 4. Inland deltas When … Delta in Botswana is perhaps the most famous, flooding an area the size of Belgium, providing a home for 200,000 large …