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Wetlands provide important storm protection and shoreline stabilization functions. They reduce the impacts of storms by lessening wind, wave, and current action. Coastal vegetation like mangroves and saltmarshes also help stabilize sediment and protect coastlines. The value of intact mangrove swamps in Malaysia for flood control and storm protection has been estimated at $300,000 per kilometre, which is less than the cost of replacing their protective functions with engineered structures. Wetlands thus play

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