America's WETLAND - where vast estuaries and highly productive regions enrich the Mississippi River Delta - is one of the largest threatened ecosystems on the planet. This valuable landscape extending along Louisiana's coast is disappearing at a rate of over 16 square miles per year, the equivalent to a football field's worth of land every hour.
The America's WETLAND Foundation (AWF), established in Louisiana and working throughout the Gulf region, was founded in 2002 in response to a comprehensive coastal study calling on the need to alert the nation of the devastating loss of Louisiana's coastal wetlands and how the loss impacts the rest of the nation.
