Between 2009 and 2019, the US lost 221,000 acres of wetlands. The rate of that loss is also accelerating according to the most recent Status and Trends report from the US Fish & Wildlife Service.

Caption: The map shows both the differences in ... been high rates of loss are shown in yellow to red and regions with dense present-day wetland and with low rates of loss are shown in blue.

Wetlands are exactly what they sound like – according to the WWF, they are places where ‘the land is covered by water—salt, fresh, or somewhere in between—either seasonally or permanently ...