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wetland reclamation

A Canadian in Iceland: The country's first lady on how her adopted home is tackling climate change

A Canadian in Iceland: The country's first lady on how her adopted home is tackling climate change

But it's the wetlands and bird sanctuary, just a few metres away on the presidential estate, to which Reid and her husband, President Guðni Jóhannesson, draw the attention of a visiting CBC News crew. "We had ditches there," Jóhannesson said, pointing to a grassy area close to the shoreline. "They were dug in the 1930s to cultivate the land. Now, we are filling up those ditches [with water]. It's a case of wetland reclamation."