SA winning the battle to save wetlands – WWF

Article originally from IOL, 23 March 2006

South Africa appears to be winning the battle to restore its spoiled wetlands, with more hectares being rehabilitated each year than are lost to urban development and poor land management, says the environmental organisation WWF.

"We're making very slow progress towards recovering the wetlands that have been lost since the beginning of the last century," WWF-South Africa wetlands expert David Lindley told reporters at the Fourth World Water Forum under way in Mexico City.

He said the Working for Wetlands programme - established five years ago and funded by government to the tune of R65-million a year - was rehabilitating about 7 000 hectares of wetlands each year.

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