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BREAM researcher Jessie Hallett in the Mid Ocean on July 31st

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Mid Ocean News link here Published: July 31. 2009 12:00AM How our wetlands have shrunk over past 200 years By Alex Scrymgeour B ERMUDA has lost 57 per cent of its wetland areas in the last 200 years. With continued coastal development and people continuing to dump trash illegally at marshes and other wetland environments the problem is only getting worse. undefined Click Here to Visit our Sponsor Last night, Jessie Hallett, a researcher with the Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS), gave a lecture in the main hall of the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo (BAMZ), discussing how marine and wetland habitats of Bermuda have changed in the past two centuries. By comparing a 200-year-old detailed map of our reef and wetland ar