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the wide part of a river where it nears the sea

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''There are more than 50 hippopotamuses at the Sabaki estuary, they should be confined so that residents can live in peace and stop attacking them,'' he said.
The project, made possible by National Lottery players, aims to inspire coastal communities on the Wirral and in Flintshire and Denbighshire about the natural heritage of the Dee Estuary.
Doing so created a sanctuary area for the tens of thousands of water birds that flock to the estuary from Arctic regions every year, to spend the cold winter months in the UK.
There had been Maori settlements at what is now called Warrington, and by the Waitati River, and at the time of the first European arrivals the area of the estuary had been a flax swamp.
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No one gives the estuary a good shake; the blending is instead caused by waves breaking at the surface of the water; water moving rapidly over bumps on the bottom of the estuary; or even fresh water moving rapidly over saltier water.
BRIONY O'CLARKE: There is a lookout in Portmeirion's wilderness where you can sit and look out across the Estuary for miles.
Dozens of organizations throughout the country, including member organizations of Restore America's Estuaries, National Estuary Program sites, and National Estuarine Research Reserves, among others, host education, recreation, and restoration events connect communities with their local waterways.
KUWAIT, April 14 (KUNA) -- Khor Abdullah estuary is one of Kuwait's main marine monuments, situated between the country's northern borders and Iraq.
* To know the diversity of benthic macro fauna in the Meghna River Estuary (at Chairman Ghat, Noakhali) and the Bakkhali River Estuary (Cox's Bazar).
The morphology of this estuary was previously described by Fontan (2001) and similar estuaries in the Cantabrian coast have been studied to characterize their general features and dynamics (Flor and Camblor, 1990; Flor et al., 1992; Flor et al., 1996; Uriarte et al., 2004; Flor et al., 2015).
In an estuary, the relative importance of the environment drivers is expected to be higher near the sandbar, where the ocean saltwater inflow creates an inhospitable environment for most species.
THE Environment Agency and the RSPB are hosting an open day to showcase a new PS4.6m bird reserve at Greatham Creek on the Tees Estuary.
The first building of Estuary, the luxury waterfront community in Weehawken, has commenced its leasing program, announced its developer, Hartz Mountain Industries.
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