To celebrate World Wetlands Day why not take a closer look at the Riverland's Bookmark Creek Wetlands.
World Wetlands Day celebrates wetlands each year on the second of February.
Here in the Riverland we can celebrate our wetlands each day.
Right near the centre of Renmark, on Twenty First Street, the Bookmark Creek Wetlands walk has just reopened.
Teresa Ter Bogt is a member of the Bookmark Creek Action Group, together the group have been busy clearing the walkway following high water and the ensuing debris.
Teresa has been walking and canoeing in Bookmark Creek and its wetlands for around a decade and has collected lots of snaps of the beautiful native wildlife that live there.
Teresa says it's a love for the outdoors and the environment that drives her and her fellow Bookmark Creek Action members to volunteer their time to surveying, tidying and championing the wetlands.
"We need to be sustainable in everything we do and save it for the next generation."
"And it's just our love of nature."
Bookmark Creek has had a varied history, which has changed with different water management practices.
Teresa says today the Bookmark Creek Action Group hopes that through surveying flora, fauna and water quality they may be able to devise a healthy management plan for the water way and wetlands.
"There's a fair bit of history to the creek and it's quite debatable.
"People tend to remember how things were when they were young.
"They say 'oh the creek used to be so healthy it had fish and yabbies' and that's from people that are in their 50s to 70s say.
"Because back in the 1960s the creek was healthy, it was flowing with water all the time.
"It's because at the Twenty First Street Bridge near there was an irrigation pump and the Renmark Irrigation Trust pumped water from there.
"So they'd artificially filled the creek to have fresh water for irrigation.
"But prior to that, and even going back to the 1920s pre-locks being installed, the creek would have only ever flowed in high river.
After 1970 the creek was also used as a salt drainage system taking salt out of river water to be used for irrigation.
Irrigation practices have now improved so there is no need for it to be used that way.
"So you look over the history and it went from an intermittent flowing creek to then being blocked off and backed up with fresh water for irrigation."
Teresa says the creek and the wetlands around it are now in safe hands because the Bookmark Creek Action Group is in the process of rehabilitating the area.
Teresa urges you, whether you are visiting or you have lived in the Riverland all your life, to celebrate a local wetland and take a walk along the newly reopened Bookmark Creek Wetland walk.