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Beavers Castor canadensis with beaver dam.  Illustration based in Tierra del Fuego, where introduced beavers have damaged the closed ecosystem. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria pencil drawing

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria with three flowering spikes

Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks

Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks and a willow tree leaning across the stream

Ink landscape of the wetlands of the Okavango delta in Botswana showing palm trees, wetlands, and associated wildlife such as hippo, cranes, termite mounds, storks, and crocodile

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]