Why are humans destroying wetlands?

Answer 1

Wetlands are specifically valuable to people as places for recreational and educational activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, and wildlife observation. Wetlands are often filled in to be used by humans for everything from agriculture to parking lots, in part because the economic value of wetlands has only been recognized recently: the shrimp and fish that breed in salt water marshes are generally harvested in deeper water, for example. Humans can maximize the area of healthy, functioning wetlands by minimizing their impacts and by developing management strategies that protect, and where possible rehabilitate those ecosystems at risk. Wetlands are sometimes deliberately created to help with water reclamation. One example is Green Cay Wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, in the United States. While the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that human activities are responsible for about 60 percent of methane emissions worldwide, wetlands are among the natural sources. A study by Ohio State University scientists suggests that river floods and storms that send water surging through swamps and marshes near rivers and coastal areas might cut in half the average greenhouse gas emissions from those affected wetlands.

Answer 2

Humans motivations to destroy wetlands is for agriculture and buildings. They do all of this because they don't fully understand what they are and this is when the scientific research comes in place.

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Answer 3

Because we enjoy the convenience of using it's resources. Not many people really care about future generations, just long to appear as if they do. We also live in an unfair world, sometimes it's the only way to feed your family.

Answer 4

They use wetlands for getting drinks if they don't have anything or they use the water to wash there clothes.

Answer 5

For the same basic reasons that we destroy anything: power, hubris and greed.