https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudd
The Sudd (Arabic: السد, romanized ... The area which the swamp covers is one of the world's largest wetlands and the largest freshwater wetland in the Nile Basin. For many years the swamp, and especially its thicket of vegetation, proved an impenetrable barrier to navigation along the Nile. ... Journal of the Royal African Society. 2 (8

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However, four of these can be analyzed to give an overview of the characteristics of wetlands in Africa. These are the Sudd, the Okavango delta, the 'Dambo' and the Tana river delta wetlands. The Sudd is Africa's largest wetland. With an estimated area of 57,000 sq. km, it represents one of the largest freshwater ecosystems in the world.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/will-a-nile-canal-project-dry-up-africas-largest-wetland
Africa's largest freshwater wetland permanently occupies roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan and floods up to 10 times more in the wet season. But now the Sudd is under threat of being turned to desert by the revival of a half-completed engineering megaproject that would divert the Nile River away from the

https://schoolforafrica.org/environment/the-largest-wetlands-in-africa-sudd/
Sudd is the largest wetlands in Africa and second in the world, with an estimated area of 57,000 km², located in South Sudan. The extent of Sudd wetlands depends on the seasons and yearly. During wet seasons the the size of this wetland increases up to 90,000km² and gradually decreases to about 42,000 km² depending on high seasonal floods.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sudd-wetland-south-sudan
48. South Sudan's Sudd Wetland, also known as Al-Sudd, is one of the world's largest wetlands, covering more than 35,000 square miles in the north-central part of the country. The White Nile

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Africa's largest wetland is home to a bewildering array of birdlife, with over 400 species to be spotted.

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The Jonglei Canal is an incomplete project proposed by a British-Egyptian civil engineer in 1907. The project aimed to divert water from a point on the White Nile, one of the tributaries of the Nile River, located south of the Sudd Wetland, to another point north of it. The purpose was to increase water flow downstream to Sudan and Egypt.

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-4001-3_23
The Sudd is one of the largest floodplains in Africa and one of the largest tropical wetlands in the world. Derived from an Arabic word meaning obstacle or blockage of river channels, the Sudd extends 650 km and 10-40 km wide between 6° 0′-9° 8′ N and 30° 10′-31° 8′ E in South Sudan (Fig. 1).The Sudd is part of the Bahr el Jebel river system (the upper reach of the White Nile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEROfd7-4k
The Sudd is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd, meaning "barrier" or "o

https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/archive/wle/thrive/2013/02/01/seeing-sudd-space/index.html
The few studies that have been conducted on the wetland reveal the Sudd to be a unique and highly biodiverse ecosystem, home to over 400 bird and 100 mammal species. The Sudd supports the highest population of shoebill storks and the greatest numbers of antelopes in Africa. Many fish species migrate from the surrounding rivers to the nutrient

https://news.un.org/en/story/2006/10/197992
With a total area in excess of 30,000 square kilometres, the Sudd is arguably the largest wetland in Africa and provides immense economic and environmental benefits to the entire region. The swamps, flood plains and rain-fed grasslands support a rich animal diversity including hundreds of thousands of migratory birds.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/08/the-impenetrable-wetland-of-sudd-in.html
The Sudd is a vast expanse of swampy lowland region in central South Sudan, formed by the river White Nile. The area which the swamp covers is one of the world's largest wetlands in the Nile basin. Its size is highly variable, averaging over 30,000 square kilometers, but during the rainy season depending on the inflowing waters, the Sudd can

https://africageographic.com/stories/worlds-largest-overland-mammal-migration-confirmed-in-south-sudan/
This immense landscape is critically important to the Sudd Swamps, the largest wetlands in Africa and the second largest in the world. The estimates, together with confidence intervals, indicate that the BBJL contains the largest land mammal migration on Earth, including white-eared kob (±5,089,421), tiang (±298,776), Mongalla gazelle (±

https://www.sej.org/headlines/will-nile-canal-project-dry-africa-s-largest-wetland
Africa's largest freshwater wetland permanently occupies roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan and floods up to 10 times more in the wet season. But now the Sudd is under threat of being turned to desert by the revival of a half-completed engineering megaproject that would divert the Nile River away from the

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50708544
The level of activity is nothing like the same as in the early 2010s, but the Sudd wetlands remain an important source. "It's a huge area so it's not surprising that it's pumping out a lot of methane.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-map-of-the-Sudd-wetland-left-and-evaporation-map-showing-mean-annual_fig1_263727147
Sudd, or 'sadd', is an Arabic word meaning 'blockage' or 'barrier'. The sudd swamp is almost flat and is one of the largest tropical wetlands (30,000-40,000 km 2 ) in Africa (Mohamed and Savenije

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-022-01609-8
The Sudd wetland is one of the world's largest wetlands, averaging 57,000 square km but can cover an area of up to 130,000 square km depending on the discharge from the Albert Nile, and it is recognized under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of International Importance (MoE 2015, Azab 2017). The permanent swamps, usually close to the main

https://www.cnn.com/travel/south-sudan-migration-c2e-spc-intl/index.html
Despite being land-locked, South Sudan has vast freshwater resources, including Africa's largest wetland, the Sudd, which is fed by the overflow of the White Nile. The name is derived from the

https://www.wetlands.org/blog/a-world-without-wetlands-is-a-world-without-freshwater/
Meanwhile, the government of South Sudan sought to revive a half-completed scheme to divert the River Nile away from the Sudd, Africa's second largest wetland. The bypass could, it claimed, provide irrigation water at home and deliver water downstream to Egypt, the would-be paymaster of the project.

https://grist.org/accountability/will-a-nile-canal-project-dry-up-africas-largest-wetland/
The abandoned site of the half-completed Jonglei Canal is one of the strangest scenes in Africa. A dry excavation, 250 feet wide and up to 25 feet deep, extends across near-desert east of the Sudd

https://www.africanparks.org/worlds-largest-land-mammal-migration-confirmed-south-sudan
This immense landscape is critically important to the Sudd Swamps which are the largest wetlands in Africa and the second largest in the world. About African Parks: African Parks is a non-profit conservation organisation that takes on the responsibility for the rehabilitation and long-term management of protected areas in partnership with

https://forsouthsudan.com/major-new-report-oils-onslaught-on-the-sudd-largest-wetland-in-africa
The Sudd wetland is one of the most unique and valuable ecosystems on Earth. It is the largest wetland in Africa, a designated a Ramsar site , and supports endangered mammalian species, rich and abundant fish populations, and around 1 million people whose livelihoods are attuned to the changes in the environment - particularly through cattle

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-world-s-largest-mammal-migration-happens-here-every-year-war-means-no-one-knows-about-it/ar-BB1oR8Cm
Despite being land-locked, South Sudan has vast freshwater resources, including Africa's largest wetland, the Sudd, which is fed by the overflow of the White Nile. The name is derived from the

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/business/denmark-cows-carbon-tax/index.html
Dairy farmers in Denmark face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($96) per cow for the planet-heating emissions they generate. The country's coalition government agreed this week to

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_23-5
The Sudd is one of the largest floodplains in Africa and one of the largest tropical wetlands in the world. Derived from an Arabic word meaning obstacle or blockage of river channels, the Sudd extends 650 km and 10-40 km wide between 6° 0′-9° 8′ N and 30° 10′-31° 8′ E in South Sudan (Fig. 1 ). The Sudd is part of the Bahr el

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Mackie has been a certified scuba diver for nearly two decades. "I've swam with some crazy stuff, and I've swam with sharks before. I just swam with Great Whites in South Africa. I did whale sharks in Mexico. I swam with a blue whale off the coast of Cape Town."

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Local residents and officials expressed concern for the Rapidan Dam as southern Minnesota battles an onslaught of rain and severe flooding.

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Northern Dynasty Minerals said on Wednesday two Alaska native village corporations had sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its veto against the Canadian miner's proposed Pebble mine

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Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya's legislature on Tuesday, with at least five protesters killed and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/americas/brazil-pantanal-wetland-fires-intl-latam/index.html
A view of a burnt monkey amongst the burnt vegetation in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 11, 2024.