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socio-cultural value

Many wetlands also have an important socio-cultural value…

Although this value is still relatively unexplored, it is known that wetlands have religious and historical values for many local communities. For example:
  • in Australia many wetlands have a cultural value to their Aboriginal owners, in which they conduct ceremonies and semi-traditional hunting and gathering;


  • in Hong Kong the Mai Poi marshes are the only place where residents can watch traditional methods of shrimp cultivation;

  • certain studies have shown that more than 30% of 603 Ramsar wetland sites examined had archaeological, historical, cultural, religious, mythical or artistic/creative significance.

* Some plants and animals, like humans and grey rats, are widespread and inhabit most regions, while others have very restricted distributions and may be found only on a single island or mountaintop, in a single river or lake. We refer to these highly restricted organisms as endemic species because they are unique to a specific region.

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