Sentences with phrase «percent of its coastal wetlands»

Likewise, the $ 19 billion in losses New York City sustained from Hurricane Sandy would have been substantially less had the city not previously lost 85 percent of its coastal wetlands and 90 percent of its freshwater wetlands to waterfront development.

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Some 90 percent of fish residing in the ocean rely on coastal wetlands, mangrove swamps, or rivers as spawning areas.

The move was seen as a necessary countermeasure to widespread coastal loss and degradation, which had already resulted in over 90 percent of the state's wetlands being lost and in large fisheries population declines, among other harmful consequences.