What is a Wetland?

Like we said, the Blog was created to inform people about wetlands but before we can go any further we need to understand what wetlands are.

A wetland is a wet land (i.e land which is wet).  A wetland is found where the land is wet enough, either saturated or flooded enough to be favourable to plants that adapt to soil conditions that require an absence of free oxygen.  When soil becomes extremely wet, the spaces between the soil particles becomes filled by water.  When this happens, the soil is said to be saturated.  The water will drain away very slowly while the soil remains saturated for a long time.