Clean Water in the Gulf

Today is Blog Action Day, where blogs across the internet have pledged to focus on a single topic. This year's topic is clean water.

We urge you to consider clean water not only as a basic human necessity, but as a wildlife necessity as well. The pollution and destruction of our lakes, rivers and oceans affects all living things in an ever-moving cycle of cause and effect.

The America's Wetland Conservation Corps is dedicated to cleaning, rebuilding and preserving crucial wetlands in coastal Louisiana. In September they co-authored a set of recommendations to Congress on "sustaining economic and ecological assets of the Gulf region in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill." Among those recommendations was a federal Trust Fund for Gulf Coast Restoration, funded by money from BP.

For more information about the America's Wetland Foundation, or their partners, see their website.