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Saving theWorld’s Wetlands

A team of farmers, university researchers and environmentalists is busy at work in the wetlands of eastern England. They are digging into the area’s barley and wheat fields. They are looking for wet earth that could hide lost ponds underneath.

The group of diggers takes just a few hours to bring one dying pond back to life. It is near Hindolveston, a thousand-year-old village close to the North Sea.

“As soon as they get water and light, they just spring to life,” says Nick Anema,a farmer in nearby Dereham. He has brought seven ponds on his property back to life.

“You’ve got frogs and toads and newts, all the insects like mayflies, dragonflies,damselflies. ... You can’t really beat a pond,” he said.