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Even though Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, water is not valued highly enough to ensure that water resources, catchments, and wetlands are given effective protection. Wetlands have been degraded and lost in Australia at an alarming rate. In Australia’ s rather wetter and mountainous neighbor, New Zealand, the struggle to control wild and unpredictable natural systems with European farming approaches has created a legacy of erosion, declining water quality, and wetland losses in spite of the more generous water resources. It is suspected that similar problems occur in the smaller islands of Australasia, but no data could be readily obtained for these countries during this review, which concentrates on the situation in Australia and New Zealand.
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Jensen, A.E. (1999). Wetland Rehabilitation in Australasia. In: Streever, W. (eds) An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4683-8_2
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