Environmental scientist: It is true that over the past ten years, there has been a sixfold increase in government funding for the preservation of wetlands, while the total area of wetlands needing such preservation has increased only twofold (although this area was already large ten years ago)  Even when inflation is taken into account, the amount of funding now is at least three times what it was ten years ago
Research over the past ten years has enabled scientists today to identify wetlands in need of preservation well before the areas are at serious risk of destruction.
 Nevertheless, the current amount of government funding for the preservation of wetlands is inadequate and should be augmented