In the days leading up to this year's hurricane season, America's Wetland Foundation is hosting a series of events in hopes of raising national awareness of the loss of coastal wetlands and the need for its restoration.
Storm Warning IV: Last Stand for America's Wetland will kick off on May 30 - with a free riverfront concert in New Orleans with Irma Thomas and Rockin' Dopsie Jr. (and others yet to be named) - and will last for three days. There will also be a flotilla parade on the intracoastal canal, a summit on coastal issues in Lake Charles, and a 24-hour public rally.
In a press conference in New Orleans yesterday, R. King Milling, chair of the America's Wertland Foundation, said the event will celebration Louisiana's culture, heritage, and land, as well as take a serious look at the problem of coastal erosion. "We live on the edge of this crisis, and we have a responsibility to raise awareness and educate others about what's happening here so they can help us do everything we can to stop it."
America's WETLANDS are very important, and not enough people know enough about what is happening to them.
America's WETLAND, one of the nation's largest and most productive expanses of coastal wetlands, is disappearing. Every 50 minutes, we lose about enough land to fill a football field.
Join us in our fight to save coastal Louisiana. The potential collapse of this intricate ecosystem would have enormous negative environmental consequences for wildlife habitat and marine life.
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America's WETLANDS are very important, and not enough people know enough about what is happening to them.
America's WETLAND, one of the nation's largest and most productive expanses of coastal wetlands, is disappearing. Every 50 minutes, we lose about enough land to fill a football field.
Join us in our fight to save coastal Louisiana. The potential collapse of this intricate ecosystem would have enormous negative environmental consequences for wildlife habitat and marine life.
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