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"You have oil exploration in the northern part of the Sudd already," he said.

Although the county lies outside the Sudd, it is affected by swamps.

The Sudd swamps which form the central part of the basin may still be subsiding.

South Sudan includes the Sudd, one of the world's largest wetlands.

The term 'sudd' has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat.

Orographic lifting on the eastern and western sides of the Sudd contribute to that condition.

The Dinka remained in the Sudd area, maintaining their transhumance economy.

The Sudd country in the upper Nile regions was a special obstacle to overcome.

In the Sudd, these fish have been found to occur beneath fringing Eichornia.

The Sudd flooded grasslands of southern Sudan divide this area into eastern and western blocks.

Then, as sudd as it had appeared, the fire faded, leaving only a r( melted scorch in the earth.

Robyn pointed, and the two things shambled toward the sudd enly tentative ogres.

The goal of the Sudd project is to carve a canal through the swamp to increase the water flow and reduce the amount lost to evaporation.

Elizabeth sudd lshouted at picture.

The pollution was also affecting the Sudd wetlands, deemed to be of international importance under the Ramsar convention.

In deeper waters it is the chief constituent of the floating, tangled masses of vegetation known as sudd.

Due to the nature of the wetlands it is not always clear whether one river flows into another or merely merges in the general Sudd swamps.

The Sudd and the Okavango Delta are Africa's best known marshland areas.

Howard battles Sudd, and then battles Soofi.

Due to evaporation, only half the water that enters the Sudd at Mongalla emerges from the northern end of the swamps.

This gives way further east to the Sudd, an area of tropical wetland fed by the water of the White Nile.

The expansion of oil production south into the vast Sudd wetlands, protected under the international Ramsar Convention, raised significant challenges.

However, they could also increase water availability, for example through the draining of swamps such as the Sudd where large amounts of water currently evaporate.

So intractable was this sudd (see Glossary) as an obstacle to navigation that a passage was not discovered until the mid-nineteenth century.

Dinka, Nuer and Shilluk pastoralists use the Sudd and the surrounding areas extensively.