The ongoing climate crisis has intensified significantly and had brought on several urgent issues alongside it. According to the UN, “wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests and are the Earth's most threatened ecosystem.” Urbanization and deforestation are two of the leading causes for the destruction of wetlands along with climate change following close behind. Wetlands are home to numerous integral species that help play a huge role in the food chain and flourishing of the environment as a whole.

Wetlands play a huge role in absorbing and storing carbon dioxide. “The soil stores more carbon than any other ecosystem on earth, storing twice as much as all the worlds forests” (GCA, 2022). As a result, the preservation of wetlands is integral to the protection of the environment, playing a huge role in absorbing co2 and methane.

It is critical that we act now since we only have one Earth and it is drying up and deteriorating at increasing rates.