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  2. Brolga - Wikipedia

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    The brolga (Antigone rubicunda), formerly known as the native companion, is a bird in the crane family. It has also been given the name Australian crane, a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithologist John Gould in his Birds of Australia. [4] The brolga is a common, gregarious wetland bird species of tropical and south-eastern Australia and ...

  3. Serendip Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Serendip is composed of wetland and grassy woodland ecosystems allowing for different flora and fauna species to thrive in diverse habitats. [25] The park exhibits the open wetlands of the Volcanic Western Plain through its three main wetland types; open wetland, shallow freshwater wetland and marshland .

  4. Chris Barns - Wikipedia

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    Chris Barns, nicknamed "Brolga", is an Australian kangaroo carer. He is the founder of the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs and was featured in the 2013 BBC documentary series Kangaroo Dundee . Barns and the Kangaroo Sanctuary came to international attention when Roger , one of the earlier kangaroos which he adopted, went viral for his ...

  5. Category:Wetlands of the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    This category includes articles on wetlands in the United States by U.S. state. Subcategories. This category has the following 53 subcategories, out of 53 total. ...

  6. No net loss policy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "No Net loss" is the United States government's overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland loss due to economic development with wetlands reclamation, mitigation, and restorations efforts, so that the total acreage of wetlands in the country does not decrease, but remains constant or increases.

  7. Swampland in Florida - Wikipedia

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    The common usage of this term implies that swampland is worthless. Without development or some ability to develop it, it is not valuable for real estate purposes. There have been cases that swampland was purchased and turned into very valuable property, notably for the creation of Walt Disney World and also to some extent including many developed lands in Florida.

  8. Emergency Wetlands Resources Act - Wikipedia

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    Federal Duck Stamp, signed by hunter as required for legal use. Sale of stamps were enacted by the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1929. Advancements from money earned from the sale of Duck Stamps is what provided funding for the Wetlands Loan Act of 1961. Section 3923 prohibited the use of Eminent Domain as a way of acquiring wetlands.

  9. Converted wetland - Wikipedia

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    A converted wetland is one that has been drained, dredged, filled, leveled, or otherwise altered for the production of an agricultural commodity. [1] The definition is part of The Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Compliance provisions [2] (Swampbuster) introduced in the 1985 Farm Bill (also known as The Food Security Act of 1985).