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Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.Farms in the wetlands provide about 150 tonnes of vegetables daily, 10,500 tonnes of fish annually and employ tens of thousands of people, the Ramsar listing estimates.
The Verlorenvlei Estuary is one of South Africa’s treasures. But this critical ecosystem faces an onslaught that threatens its unique biodiversity, the most recent a tungsten mining application in the Verlorenvlei catchment.
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