The answer is that wetlands serve as breeding grounds for many animals, not just fish, as well as act as nurseries for when the animals are just born. ... Wetlands are critical to the fish industry, which continues to over farm the oceans. ... So in short peat is both a protectors of the atmosphere and a useful fuel source, unfortunately wetlands are destroyed for it. ... These animals are a good, as well as expensive source of food. Other animals like oysters and clams also live in wetlands. ...

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The families were all similarly structured; Men made decisions, women watched the children and did as they were told. 2.Animals play an important symbolic role throughout this novel. ... They "puttered while they stood idle; they thundered when they moved, and then settled down to a droning roar" (Steinbeck, 47) and were driven by a "man sitting in the iron seat [He] did not look like a man he was a part of the monster [the bank]" (Steinbeck, 48) The bank informs the men that "a man can hold land if he can just eat and pay taxes" (Steinbeck, 43) However, the bank "isn't like a man" ...

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