PLANS are underway to declare the Lower Okavango River in the Mahango Section of the Bwabwata National Park as Namibia's fifth Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar site), The Namibian has learnt.
Wetlands provide a number of goods and services to people around the world. Apart from providing fish, reeds and thatching grass, they help to prevent erosion, improve water quality, stabilise climate and recharge aquifers.
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