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CLASS V – VARIOUS WETLANDS<br />

• these either do not provide essential goods or services upon which many people depend or, they<br />

do provide such resources but these are so locally abundant that degradation or over-harvest<strong>in</strong>g<br />

is unlikely <strong>in</strong> the foreseeable future;<br />

• they harbour no endangered, endemic or rare species, nor unique habitats; they represent the<br />

majority <strong>of</strong> the nations wetlands<br />

VICTOR wetlands are generally too big to be seriously threatened by wholesale dra<strong>in</strong>age or<br />

permanent degradation by exist<strong>in</strong>g technology; this threat may however grow <strong>in</strong> future; these<br />

are!<br />

VICTIM wetlands are dispensable wetlands that could be ‘sacrificed’ or traded for other socioeconomic<br />

development uses e.g. agriculture or urban development;<br />

VANQUISHED wetlands are those that are either (1) totally converted to productive alternate<br />

uses e.g. dairy farm<strong>in</strong>g or irreversible urban development; these should rema<strong>in</strong> converted: (2)<br />

those totally converted but not productively used; restoration should be applied where<br />

economically viable.

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