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NIGERIA - The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) is a Nigerian project of the Federal Ministry of Environment (FME) saddled with the responsibility of implementing the recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Report 2011 on the environmental assessment of Ogoniland. One of the report’s recommendations is the cleanup of shorelines impacted by oil spills and the restoration of degraded mangroves in the region. The impact of the oil spill in Ogoni destroyed thousands of hectares of mangrove forest. There is a need to clean up and rehabilitate the impacted areas as recovery is very slow and, if left to recover naturally, would take several decades. HYPREP has mapped out over 3000 hectares of degraded mangrove in Gokana Local Government Area (LGA), one of the four LGAs of Ogoniland, where cleanup and mangrove rehabilitation have started. HYPREP commenced its pilot mangrove rehabilitation project on over 590 hectares in Bomu, a shoreline community in Gokana whose mangrove was degraded by the impact of multiple oil spills years ago. Other mangrove areas and contiguous low intertidal flats requiring remedial action would be cleaned using low-pressure flushing and safe skimming of the released oil from the agitated sediment. The cleanup and mangrove restoration process are guided and evaluated using the Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT). In some parts of the Bomu mangrove, natural atenuation that can support mangrove revegetation has occurred, typified by the presence of some volunteer seedlings, but recovery is slow. This is likely due to insufficient propagule stock in the area. Unregulated mangrove harvesting removes propagules before they mature and drop to recharge the system.
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KENYA - Tsunza Peninsula is a natural wonder that sits just inside the many inlets of Mombasa Island on the border between Mombasa and Kwale Counties—a little-known spectacle of lagoons, islands, and thick mangroves in Kinango Sub-County, Kwale County, on Kenya’s coastal region. This natural paradise is a beehive of activities, with fishers meandering through the creeks and returning to the shores after a dawn harvest. Dhows and motorboats glide from shore to shore, with tourists and locals travelling between the two neighboring counties. What holds these activities together are the efforts of the 45 people, 35 of them women, of the Tsunza Fish Pond and Mangrove Restoration community project. They protect, preserve, conserve, and restore Tsunza’s mangrove forest and the entire ecosystem. Mangroves are not only a critical biodiversity hotspot; they are also coastal superheroes, a first line of defense against climate-induced coastal hazards.
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SRI LANKA - In a landmark achievement in the world of conservation, Sri Lanka was declared a UN World Restoration Flagship, in recognition of the nation’s vital efforts to rebuild and restore its mangrove ecosystems. The UN Flagship Restoration Award is a timely recognition of Sri Lanka’s viable, lasting solutions towards the restoration of these essential ecosystems which support countless lives and livelihoods across the island. The nation is slated to receive the award at the United Nations Environmental Assembly which will be held in Nairobi on February 27, 2024. The award signifies the nation’s effective use of the UN’s Principles for Ecosystem Restoration, while highlighting globally significant best practices and methodologies that can potentially serve as a framework for future success across the world. The aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and its destructive impacts on Sri Lanka’s coastline highlighted the importance of mangroves as a coastal protector. Unfortunately, the continued destruction of mangroves and the lack of a formal mechanism impeded effective conservation and restoration.
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THAILAND - <strong><em>Kanit Sookdang</em></strong>, 65 years old, regularly participates in local campaigns and activities to protect community resources, improve livelihoods and support income generation. Originally from Uttaradit province, Kanit has lived in the community for 45 years and has contributed towards planting mangroves to defend her home against rising seas. Despite moving her house over 500 meters inland five times, she still faces the relentless waves and storms that are now becoming more frequent. Sleepless nights fueled her determination to inspire others in her community to take action and promote mangroves restoration. She is leading an initiative to register the area as a mangrove community forest with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR).Currently, Kanit is the leader of the natural dyeing group, a village committee member, a leading representative of the elderly group, and a member of the school committee. More recently, Kanit was elected by villagers to serve as a Vice President of Khlong Prasong Community Forest Group, an honorable position where she seeks to represent a women’s voices towards conservation.As community-based tourism in Khlong Prasong continues to flourish, attracting visitors from outside, Wanida has been a key driver in fostering local involvement in forest conservation and increasing awareness on resource management to benefit the community. Through this initiative, Wanida aims to ensure a sustainable livelihood for villagers, all while adhering to regulated guidelines and safeguarding biodiversity.
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PHILIPPINES - Together with the Mama Earth Foundation, Team Malizia created the Malizia Mangrove Park in the Philippines where half the mangroves were lost over the past 100 years. In teaming up with the Davao Oriental State University and local community, the goal of the park was to plant one million mangroves next to the existing ones. “Thanks to donations and help from our partners, we are pleased to announce that we have accomplished our goal of one million mangroves”, said Boris Herrmann. “It seemed like such a big yet achievable number when we created the park in 2020. Through years of enduring efforts and donations, the Malizia Mangrove Park makes an important contribution to the restoration of this coastal ecosystem, provides a better income for local residents, and the mangroves bind large quantities of carbon dioxide. We are not finished and efforts still need to be made to fully restore the local ecosystem, so we are now setting the new goal of two million mangroves.” The Team Malizia skipper added: “Numbers aren’t our most important goal though. Our aim is to restore the coastal ecosystem to a point where the mangroves can reproduce themselves and no further human help is needed. That’s the whole idea of the park: planting mangroves in a sustainable way, with the knowledge of experts from the local University led by Dr Lea Jimenez, and by involving the local community in the restoration process. The million mark is to break down what seems like an impossible task into achievable milestones and push us to continue taking further action to protect an invaluable ecosystem.”
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ECUADOR - This past August, in southern Ecuador amidst dense mangrove forests, scientists were at work. As I followed in her footsteps, Julie Shahan, a Stanford University Ph.D. student, navigated the challenging terrain, burdened by the large 25-pound piece of equipment on her back. This equipment, a gas analyzer, collects measurements to unlock the secrets of soil greenhouse gas emissions. This journey was a collaborative effort between Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES), Stanford University, Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Environmental Defense Fund. With thick mud underfoot and a symphony of scientific measurements being collected around us, Julie deployed the gas analyzer, measuring carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the soil. The data collected during the trip will serve as the bedrock for evaluating the efficacy of the climate mitigation abilities of the impending mangrove restoration projects. Mangroves are hailed for a myriad of ecosystem services, but they face danger from the impacts of human activities. Over the past 50 years, mangroves have declined globally. In Ecuador, many mangroves have been converted to aquaculture ponds to grow shrimp. That, coupled with deforestation, poses significant threats to mangroves in this region.
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<span style>GLOBAL - Since 1980, between 20 and 35 percent of all mangroves have been destroyed. There are several reasons for this, the biggest one being the shrimp industry. Between 1988 and 2008, global shrimp farming quintupled, with expansions mainly taking place in China, Thailand and Indonesia. Over five million tons of shrimp were produced around the world in 2023, with five countries — Ecuador, China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia — responsible for 74 percent of that production. Unfortunately, this massive expansion has wrought havoc on mangrove forests, which are often degraded or destroyed as a result of shrimp farmers’ efforts. According to Seafood Sustainability, an estimated 238,319 hectares of mangrove across 17 countries have been cleared to make way for shrimp farms. Given the important role mangroves play in trapping carbon, this has been disastrous for the environment. Between 30 and 122 million tons of carbon were released into the air due to mangrove clearing between 2000 and 2015, a 2018 study found. Even mangroves that aren’t completely destroyed by shrimp farms are still damaged and degraded by them. In order to provide water to their shrimp, farmers will often dig channels that divert the natural flow of fresh and saltwater away from mangroves and into shrimp ponds. This is dangerous for mangrove forests, as the reduction in saltwater makes it harder for mangrove saplings to be dispersed, and the lack of freshwater deprives mangrove trees of their life source.</span>
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GLOBAL- Annual carbon emissions from degraded mangrove forests could escalate by nearly 50,000% by the end of the century. This startling projection comes from a recent study led by <a href="https://www.montclair.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#24213d">Montclair State University</a>.</p><p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:18px">The surge in <a href="https://www.earth.com/news/mangrove-forest-reveals-ancient-climate-change-effects/"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#24213d">emissions</a> will primarily take place across degraded mangrove forests in regions like southern India, southeastern China, Singapore, and eastern Australia. These mangrove forests are crucial for <a href="https://www.earth.com/news/sea-level-rise-influences-coastal-carbon-storage-capacity/" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#24213d">carbon storage</a>
, particularly in their soil. Despite their importance, human development activities have led to a noticeable decline in these vital carbon stocks. Over the past two decades, the conversion of mangrove forests to agricultural, aquacultural, and urban areas has resulted in the loss of 158.4 million tons of global mangrove <a href="https://www.earth.com/news/young-forests-are-unexpected-heroes-of-carbon-capture/" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#24213d">carbon stocks</a>
. This loss equates to the carbon emissions generated by transporting the entire population of the United States from New York to London by air, illustrating the substantial environmental impact of such degradation. The investigation, led by Professor Jennifer Krumins of Montclair State University, together with PhD candidates Shih-Chieh Chien and Charles Knoble, aimed to examine the correlation between human population density and soil carbon stocks in urban mangrove forests. The research contributes to understanding the global carbon budget’s dynamics concerning these ecosystems. The findings highlight a concerning trend: in areas with a population density of 300 people/km2 – comparable to the population density of the UK or Japan – the carbon stored in mangrove soils near populated regions is about 37% less than in isolated mangrove forests. Furthermore, the study estimates that the current annual rate of carbon emissions from mangrove loss is 7.0 Teragrams, a figure that is expected to increase to 3,392 Teragrams by the end of the century, in line with current predictions and increasing population densities.
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BRAZIL - Extractive reserves are a common type of protected area in Brazil; they conserve the landscape while allowing communities to continue sustainably harvesting their resources. Around 300 families, known as ribeirinhos—or river people—live in 28 villages inside the reserve; another 2,000 families live nearby. Together, they comanage the area with government agencies and have exclusive rights to harvest crabs and shellfish and carry out small-scale agriculture. Their dependence on the natural abundance binds them intimately to the reserve’s 11,000 hectares of mangroves. The mangroves, in turn, play an essential role in the larger ecosystem. Those in Cassurubá are part of what some researchers and conservationists refer to as the Abrolhos seascape: a network of coral reefs and mangrove forests that harbors some of the highest-known marine biodiversity in the South Atlantic. The mangroves’ leggy roots trap sediment that otherwise would smother coral reefs, and they absorb nutrients that could disturb the estuary’s delicate chemical balance. The trees’ roots and shoots form a natural net that protects breeding sharks and small fish from larger predators and storms. Yet as rising seas from climate change submerge some mangroves and others fall to development, stands like those in Cassurubá grow more precious.
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More than 300 hectares of mangrove to be reforested after construction of Cancun’s Nichupté Vehicular Bridge</span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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MEXICO - More than 300 hectares of mangrove will be reforested once the Nichupté Vehicular Bridge is done. According to the Ministry of Communication and Transportation (SICT), the total environmental impact will be on less than four hectares. The Undersecretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, Jesús Felipe Verdugo López, stated that the Nichupté Vehicular Bridge project in Cancun will have the largest environmental restoration program that the SICT has carried out. He explained that in the construction process of the bridge, the environmental compensation and mitigation work includes 306 hectares of mangrove reforestation, while the impact will be less than four hectares. The bridge consists of 8.8 kilometers, two interchanges (Colosio and Kukulcán), a bicycle lane, bus stops, a system of walkways and lighting as well as an “arch” bridge. Once built, it will be equipped with intelligent transportation systems (ITS) connected to a C4 security.The bridge will have a cross section of 14.9 meters to accommodate three traffic lanes, one for each direction of traffic and another that will be reversible, depending on traffic demand.
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USGS and CEOS hold Workshop on Deforestation Alerts, Mangrove Mapping and Monitoring in Gabon</strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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GLOBAL - In pursuit of harnessing the potential of Earth observation data for global climate surveillance and governance, a consortium of experts has convened in Libreville, Gabon, for a workshop jointly organised by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the SilvaCarbon programme of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from February 21 to 29, 2024. This workshop will explore two key themes: deforestation alerts and mangrove mapping and monitoring.The inaugural session commenced with presentations from notable speakers, including the Director General of the Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS), Abubakar Mambimba Ndjoungui, representing the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Andreas Vollrath and Sylvia Wilson from the SilvaCarbon programme at USGS. They set the stage for discussions on integrating Early Warning Systems (EWS) into National Monitoring Systems, emphasising the pivotal role of satellite data in detecting and addressing deforestation challenges. The emphasis on Early Warning Systems and their integration into National Monitoring Systems highlights a proactive approach to environmental management. By detecting and responding to threats such as deforestation in real time, countries can potentially mitigate the adverse impacts on biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and assist local communities dependent on forest ecosystems.
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TANZANIA - It is said that “nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” (Lao Tzu). Mangroves are one of nature’s true accomplishments. These tropical plants are adapted to loose, wet soils, salt water tides and provide a natural infrastructure — a safety net — for their surroundings. They reduce soil erosion and absorb storm surges during extreme weather events. Their environmental impact protects both people and biodiversity. Tanzania's total forest vegetation covers 48.1 million hectares (ha), while the mangrove forest ecosystem in Tanzania covers an area of 158,000 ha — 0.32 percent of total forest cover. Despite their small area coverage, mangrove forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including coastal protection, breeding sites for various aquatic inhabitants, biofiltration of pollutants, provision of habitat for birdlife and wildlife. They also increase the potential of carbon sequestration, contributing to the improvement of climate change. Opportunities for beekeeping and ecotourism also directly benefit. Any source of mangrove degradation or decline has major implications for both marine resources and livelihood of adjacent mangrove-dependent communities. To ensure people continue to benefit from mangroves and to halt illegal cutting for charcoal production rather than their degradation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through the European Union funded “Multilateral Environmental Agreements in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Countries – Phase III (ACP MEAs 3)” project, has supported restoration of two hectares of mangrove forest close to Tundwi Songani village in the Kigamboni district.
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The beekeepers of Sine Saloum: How all-women team tends to Senegal mangrove</strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-line-height-alt:18px;color:#24213d;line-height:1.5"><p
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SENEGAL - Clutching a purse and clad from head to toe in white protective gear, Bintou Sonko removes a small metal kettle from her purse and releases smoke into one of the 50 beehives nestled in the dense mangrove outside her town in Senegal. Pacifying the bees, the 53-year-old extracts a dark golden liquid from within. In 2022, she, her sister, and several others in the 67-strong women’s cooperative in Joal-Fadiouth, a town 100km (62 miles) south of Dakar, spent a month learning how to make honey, build hives and interact calmly with the bees. Despite an initial fear of being stung, she is in no doubt of their importance in the mangrove. For Sonko and her colleagues who have long been shellfish gatherers, their newfound occupation as beekeepers provides additional income. But as climate change and deforestation threaten the mangrove, many say beekeeping is good for the invaluable biodiversity haven and carbon sink that stores up to five times more carbon than tropical rainforests. “Bees and honey protect the mangrove,” says Sonko, president of the cooperative Mboga Yaye, which means “a good Serrer” in the local language of the Serrers, the main ethnicity in the mangrove-rich delta of Sine Saloum. The delta was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011. Sonko explains that the bees pollinate the mangrove forest, creating more habitat for fish, shellfish and shrimp that the women traditionally collect. But more importantly, she says, “it allows the mangrove to rest”.
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USA - Minecraft’s ‘Rooted Together: The Mangrove Restoration Project’ is a campaign that aims to raise awareness - and money - for mangrove ecosystems around the world. Vital to the environment and local communities globally, the plants are surprisingly unknown - leaving the teams involved with quite the PR challenge. Turning gamers into mangrove enthusiasts and raising over $200,000 for The Nature Conservancy, Xbox and Mojang Studios, the Swedish developer behind Minecraft, partnered with creative agency 215McCann and mission-driven boutique production company Sound Off Films to create a documentary about mangrove conservation, shot half in the real world and half in Minecraft’s virtual world. A custom map was also built inside the game by Everbloom Games, a 50-minute experience visualising 50 years of mangrove restoration. Working with director Haimy Assefa, and several remote units in Kenya and the Philippines, Sound Off’s global partnerships and in-house scientists allowed them to create a sustainable and inclusive production in three different countries. The project has now won two Gold Medals in the Sustainability, Environment and Climate category at the Anthem Awards, and three PRWeek Purpose Awards for its impact in this area. To find out how the film was crafted, block-by-block, LBB’s Ben Conway spoke with Sound Off Films’ creative producer, Sophie Morgan.
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Despite the damage, the area still remains one of the most characteristic lagoon systems in Sri Lanka, with a variety of fish of the highest order. All around the area you can also find 16 authentic varieties of mangroves and 12 other plants belonging to the mangrove community. For environmentalists, immediate intervention by the Forestry Department is necessary to curb destruction that could have devastating consequences. Mangroves are an important coastal ecosystem that has an impact on human life and nourishes biodiversity, as a nursery for numerous coastal and marine species, as well as guaranteeing support for fishing. They also provide a buffer to coastal communities against extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, stabilize coastlines and provide a shield against the effects of climate change, including coastal erosion and sea level rise. In addition, they provide housing, protection and food for all types of species, including fish, conserve coral and nourish sea grass. Officials from the Center for Environmental Justice (CEJ) report that “mangrove cover in Sri Lanka has drastically reduced over the last decade”. According to a 2010 survey, there were up to 12 thousand hectares of plantations in the country, but with the progressive uprooting recorded over the years, the coverage has been reduced to 8 thousand hectares.</p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-6" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;text-align:center"><div class="alignment" align="center"><!--[if mso]>
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The rest of the coast lies in Sindh province, where more than 90% of the country’s mangroves live. There, the Indus Delta stretches over 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres), an intertidal wetland home to the world’s seventh-largest mangrove forest, which supports the livelihoods of at least 100,000 people in fisheries. However, many people in the once-prosperous delta have been forced to leave in recent decades, as damming and diversions of the Indus River, compounded by sea level rise, have led to the sea encroaching, freshwater becoming scarce, and farmland turning saline. Pakistan’s alarming vulnerability to climate change is well documented. The devastating mega floods in 2022 — made 75% more intense by climate change, according to scientists — killed at least 1,700 people, displaced 8 million, and inflicted losses of $30 billion. 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Southeast Asia’s net zero answer faces setbacks</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-line-height-alt:18px;color:#24213d;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:18px">GLOBAL - From Bali to Phuket, Southeast Asia’s beaches have always captured the imagination of tourists. But rarely has anybody recognised another potential of its vast coastline – the ability of its rich marine life to achieve carbon neutrality. The ocean system comprising tiny phytoplanktons to mangrove belts and sea grasses can store up to five times more carbon than tropical forests, but its vast natural potential is being rapidly depleted, according to Siti Maryam Yaakub, senior director at Singapore-based International Blue Carbon Institute. So-called blue carbon is known by scientists as carbon stored in ocean systems, and Southeast Asia has one of the largest such sources, but the region is also experiencing massive losses of this potential due to human activity such as aquaculture.Within Southeast Asia, the two dominant blue carbon ecosystems are mangroves and seagrass habitats. Mangroves are essentially forests that grow in the interface between the land and the sea, while seagrass are underwater plants that thrive in brackish and shallow water.</p><p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:18px">The region had been lax in preserving its blue carbon potential. “For example, a lot of the mangroves in Sumatra and Java [in Indonesia] are quickly being converted into shrimp farming, and there’s also conversion into palm oil [cultivation],” she said.</p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;text-align:center"><div class="alignment" align="center"><!--[if mso]>
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BPCL has undertaken a project to lay underground 43km-long pipelines for transporting petroleum products that will pass through its refinery, Mumbai Port Trust Authority, CIDCO and private lands. It filed an affidavit before the HC which is hearing an application filed by activist Zoru Bathena urging the court to recall its January 23 order allowing BPCL to cut 11,677 trees, including mangrove trees, for laying of the pipelines. “It is true that 10,582 mangrove trees and 1,095 terrestrial trees have been identified for cutting. However, there will be cutting of only mangrove trees and no terrestrial trees will be cut,” BPCL’s reply read. In view of September 2017 order of the high court which mandated its permission for felling of trees, BPCL had approached the high court. BPCL had contended that the pipeline was crucial for transportation of petroleum products due to non-availability of the railways which would reduce road traffic. 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SENEGAL - Heavy metal pollution and traditional shellfish harvesting methods have unintended effects on coastal ecosystems in Senegal, a study suggests. The study led by a doctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Finland showed for the first time, the impact of humans and environmental variables on Senegalese mangroves, underlining the importance of local conservation and management. Samples of sediments were collected at several sites.Credit: François Le Loc’h. The study was part of the project, Femmes et Coquillages, (Women and Shellfish), seeking to understand traditional knowledge and practices in order to contribute to sustainably harvesting shellfish resources. The team investigated the main mangrove areas in Senegal: the Sine Saloum and the Petite Cote, to evaluate the influence of environment and human activities (i.e. shellfish harvesting and heavy metal pollution) on key coastal animals. Based on collected data of invertebrates living in the sediments of the seabed from 2007 to 2008, the researchers established a conditions report for the mangrove areas to understand the factors influencing aquatic animals that live in the substrate of a body of water and which are especially common in soft sediments, known as infaunal. The results are important because "there have not been any published data on these infaunal communities since 1985. So our study serves as an important reference point for future research," says Maïté Jacquot, the lead author.
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style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">Pr</span><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>op</strong>osed bill would restore mangroves to help fight coastal erosion</span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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USA - As climatologists predict more frequent and stronger storms, Florida coastlines face the risk of erosion. But now, there is a bill in the state legislature that aims to help our shores by expanding protections against mangroves. Mangroves are so important to coastline protection that there are laws protecting them. SB 32 calls for the expansion of state statute by encouraging local governments to replant and restore mangroves. It would also implement permitting incentives for local governments to install what are known as “living shorelines,” which are the use of natural elements that protect as they grow. “Any kind of measures we can do to promote mangrove growth along our shoreline areas really go a long way to help those communities that are built behind the mangroves,” said Peter Clark, president of Tampa Bay Watch. Clark formed Tampa Bay Watch 30 years ago, and for the past decade, staff and volunteers with the organization have been installing living shorelines in the Tampa Bay region. One of the most recent installments at Lassing Park in St. Petersburg includes oyster reef balls, oyster shell bags, marsh grass and mangroves.
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CHINA - In recent years, the Xiatanwei Mangrove Coastal Wetland Ecological Park in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, has been transformed into a verdant barrier against typhoons and storm surges, owing to a series of mangrove restoration initiatives. It has also become a popular leisure and recreational spot, drawing the attention of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean Peter Thomson, who has visited twice and lauded it as a model for mangrove restoration in addresses to global audiences.Xiamen is rich in aquatic resources and there are almost 2,000 known marine species, of which 157 are common fish with economic value, 89 are mollusks, 127 are crustaceans and 139 are algae. Both the amphioxus and the Chinese White Dolphin are known as first-class national protected animals in China, and the horseshoe crab is the key protected rare animal in Fujian. It has been found that there are 14 hot springs spots or thermal abnormal points, and the water temperature is usually from 50 degrees Celsius to 60 degrees Celsius, with a maximum of 90 degrees Celsius.
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SOLOMON ISLANDS - Rehabilitating and restoring Mangrove forests is a major task for communities in Langalanga Lagoon, Malaita Province. As a population known for living on artificial islands and dependent on marine resources, the community has gradually witnessed the loss of mangroves over the past decades. A locally led non-governmental organization (NGO), Batairalo Conservation and Natural Solutions Trust, is dedicated to working with tribal landowners to sustain mangrove ecosystems. Co-founder of the organization, Stephen Suti Agalo said around 50 percent of mangroves located around his childhood home are now gone. “Due to population explosion, more people are using mangroves for firewood, building materials for ships and houses, and these are also sold on the market in Honiara,” he explained. Growing demands for commercial supply of materials to Honiara, coupled with the needs of rural-based communities has placed huge pressure on available natural forests, and hampered the natural regrowth of mangroves. Meanwhile, Walebarasialia Tobata, also a co-founder of the NGO, said locals living on the lagoon’s outer islands have attempted to replant mangroves.
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FIJI - The Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection is collaborating with other government agencies under the International Tropical Timber Organization.This is to launch a project focused on the community-based restoration of cyclone-affected vulnerable mangrove forests.The project, funded by the Japanese Government, will be implemented in six coastal communities in the Rewa Delta. Women’s groups in these communities will play a lead role in activities such as cultivating quality seedlings of indigenous mangroves, establishing energy forests, and providing fuel-saving cook stoves to reduce dependence on mangrove resources.The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an intergovernmental organization promoting the sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests and the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests.It has funded and assisted in the implementation of more than 1200 projects and other activities addressing the many aspects of SFM, such as forest restoration; wood-use efficiency; the competitiveness of wood products; market intelligence and transparency in the tropical timber trade and tropical timber supply chains; forest law enforcement and governance; illegal logging; biodiversity conservation; climate-change mitigation and adaptation.
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GLOBAL - Mangrove forests are a highly productive ecosystem with important potential to offset anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Mangroves are expected to respond differently to climate change compared to terrestrial forests owing to their location in the tidal environment and unique ecophysiological characteristics, but the magnitude of difference remains uncertain at the global scale. Here we use satellite observations to examine mean trends and interannual variability in the productivity of global mangrove forests and nearby terrestrial evergreen broadleaf forests from 2001 to 2020. Although both types of ecosystem experienced significant recent increases in productivity, mangroves exhibited a stronger increasing trend and greater interannual variability in productivity than evergreen broadleaf forests on three-quarters of their co-occurring coasts. The difference in productivity trends is attributed to the stronger CO2 fertilization effect on mangrove photosynthesis, while the discrepancy in interannual variability is attributed to the higher sensitivities to variations in precipitation and sea level. Our results indicate that mangroves will have a faster increase in productivity than terrestrial forests in a CO2-rich future but may suffer more from deficits in water availability, highlighting a key difference between terrestrial and tidal ecosystems in their responses to climate change.
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<span style="font-size:13px;">GLOBAL - Human-induced land subsidence causes many coastal areas to sink centimetres per year, exacerbating relative sea level rise (RSLR). While cities combat this problem through investment in coastal infrastructure, rural areas are highly dependent on the persistence of protective coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves and marshes. To shed light on the future of low-lying rural areas in the face of RSLR, we here studied a 20-km-long rural coastline neighbouring a sinking city in Indonesia, reportedly sinking with 8–20 cm per year. By measuring water levels in mangroves and quantifying floor raisings of village houses, we show that, while villages experienced rapidly rising water levels, their protective mangroves experience less rapid changes in RSLR. Individual trees were able to cope with RSLR rates of 4.3 (95% confidence interval 2.3–6.3) cm per year through various root adaptations when sediment was available locally. However, lateral retreat of the forest proved inevitable, with RSLR rates up to four times higher than foreshore accretion, forcing people from coastal communities to migrate as the shoreline retreated. Whereas local RSLR may be effectively reduced by better management of groundwater resources, the effects of RSLR described here predict a gloomy prospect for rural communities that are facing globally induced sea level rise beyond the control of local or regional government.</span>
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style="margin:0;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"><span style="font-size:20px;"><strong>A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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PANAMA - A team of environmental and natural scientists from Universidad EAFIT in Colombia, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and Boise State University in the U.S. has found evidence of an ancient petrified mangrove forest on an island in the Panama Canal. For their study, reported in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, the group collected fossils and sediment samples from the island. Prior research has shown that approximately 23 million years ago, the South American and Caribbean plates collided, pushing up parts of what is now Central America. One region became a large hill, forming what is now known as Barro Colorado Island—it is situated in Gatun Lake, which is part of the Panama Canal. In this new effort, the research team studied 121 pieces of preserved wood found on the island over the past several years. They also studied sediment samples collected from the sites where the fossils were found. They determined that many of the fossils had come from a type of mangrove tree that no longer exists. Dating of the fossils showed them to be approximately 22 million years old. Also, the sediment was from a lahar—a type of mud-and-rock river, similar in many ways to concrete, which forms as water flows down a mountain after a volcanic eruption.
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<strong><span style="font-size:18px;">Mangrove forests are ‘food baskets’ for coastal communities</span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"
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INDONESIA - When the tide is in, the salty understorey of a mangrove forest glitters with life. Fish dart through the labyrinthine root systems and find safe spots to mate and spawn; crabs and snails search amongst the fallen leaves; shellfish attach themselves to the trees’ aerial roots. Mangroves are finally making it onto policymakers’ radars as critical to climate mitigation and coastal protection, but their importance in local diets – particularly by serving as breeding grounds for fish and other aquatic animals – remains underexplored. Into that gap, a new study by scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the University of Kent (UK), and Charles Darwin University (Australia) has found that mangroves “contribute substantially to the food security and nutrition of coastal communities in Indonesia.” When shaping the study, lead author Amy Ickowitz, senior scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF, realised why this particular topic has been explored so little to date. “It seems that it is very difficult to just see which fish use mangroves and count them up – fish are highly mobile, some use mangroves at different stages of their life cycles, and some fish may not use mangroves directly, but might consume those fish that do,” she said.
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VIETNAM - Starting with the planting of mangroves in the southern province of Trà Vinh in 2018, SK Innovation has restored 226 hectares of mangrove forests in Southeast Asia. In particular, the area of mangrove forests restored in the southern Vietnamese provinces of Trà Vinh, Sóc Trăng, and Vĩnh Long along with MangLub alone amounts to 213 hectares. Thy Phạm, chief operating officer (COO) of MangLub Vietnam, an eco-friendly business founded under the auspices of SK Innovation, shared her ambitious vision during an interview with a Yonhap correspondent in Trà Vinh Province on December 19 (local time). Phạm has been engaged in a mangrove restoration initiative along with MangLub founder Kim Hang-seok in the southern province of Trà Vinh since 2019.
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"In fact, SK's support enabled us to not only lay a foundation for mangrove expansion, but also raise awareness of the need for restoration through active educational efforts," said Phạm. "Currently, more than 100 Vietnamese are involved in planting and nursery management." Mangroves, which live in tidal mudflats and seashores in subtropical regions, are considered to be effective in countering climate change due to their superb carbon dioxide absorption capabilities.</p></div></div></td></tr>
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USA - Scientists are currently investigating ecologically sound and enduring techniques for nanoparticle production. Utilizing natural sources such as plant extracts provides an environmentally friendly and economically efficient method. Avicennia marina, also referred to as the gray mangrove, is predominantly located in coastal regions. The leaves of this plant may contain bioactive metabolites that can be used to synthesize nanoparticles. This study aimed to synthesize silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using A. marina leaf extract and subsequently assess their antibacterial properties against oral pathogens. The research involved the successful synthesis of AgNPs using an environmentally sustainable method employing the leaf extract of A. marina. AgNPs showed significant antibacterial efficacy against both gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus mutans, and gram-negative bacteria, such as Klebsiella sp. In general, the use of A. marina leaf extract for the green synthesis of AgNPs is a viable and environmentally friendly approach for producing nanoparticles that exhibit favorable biological properties.
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GLOBAL - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has announced a new forestry certification program. The 'Forest monitoring for climate action' curriculum aims to strengthen institutional and technical capacities, to meet the measurement, reporting and verification requirements, as well as the enhanced transparency framework requisites. It consists of a series of e-learning courses. This course highlights the importance of forests in climate change mitigation and how quality measurement, verification and reporting (MRV) is needed to ensure environmental integrity. It outlines the MRV requirements for jurisdictional REDD+ of different standards/programmes, in case countries are seeking to obtain results-based payments or climate finance. This course offers certification. You will get your digital badge upon passing a final exam after completing the course and achieving a grade of at least 75%. The FAO elearning Academy provides learning opportunities and multilingual elearning courses for professionals working in food and nutrition security, social and economic development, and sustainable management of natural resources, with the overall goal of strengthening the capacity of member countries to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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INDONESIA - An environmental disaster is unfolding off the coast of Sumatra: “The coral reefs and mangrove forests all the way to the coast of the island of Nias have already suffered terribly,” explains Rianda Purba, director of the environmental NGO WALHI North Sumatra. "The authorities urgently need to take action. We need the whole world to see what is happening here to ensure that effective measures are taken against the spill.” In February, the tanker MT AASHI ran aground in the waters between Sumatra and the island of Nias to the west. The ship, flying the flag of Gabon, was carrying 3,600 tons of bitumen from the United Arab Emirates to Sumatra. According to the Ministry of the Environment, the ship was already corroded and was damaged by powerful waves in the Indian Ocean. Bitumen has been leaking and polluting the sea and nearby coastlines since then. The oil slick has now reached a radius of 70 km. The MT AASHI is designed to carry bitumen. The vessel had a crew of 20 – a captain and sailors from India. The crew was rescued and accommodated by local people. The shipowners have not taken action, however: After ten months, the ship has still not been salvaged and no measures have been taken to clean up the spill.
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<span style="font-size:14px;">USA - Duke Energy, Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) Florida, and Lee County Electric Cooperative recently partnered to lead a restoration project at Delnor-Wiggins State Park in Naples, planting 500 mangrove trees to support coastal ecosystems. During the project, more than 25 volunteers planted red and black mangrove trees, grown and donated by Duke Energy Crystal River Mariculture Center and CCA, across a 4,400 square-foot span of the park. The project was conducted to restore the mangrove ecosystem in the area, which is known to help reduce coastal erosion, improve water quality, sequester carbon, and provide crucial habitats for fish and wildlife. The restoration was organized in response to damages caused by Hurricane Ian in September 2022. Aside from these restoration efforts, the Crystal River Mariculture Center has also been working to rebuild and maintain Florida’s fish populations for over 30 years. </span>
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alt="Environmental steward Anna Obi Akpe" title="Environmental steward Anna Obi Akpe"></a></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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WEST AFRICA - Young people across the globe are spearheading the movement for a fairer and healthier world through activism, outreach and community-led solutions for ecosystems and livelihoods. Mitigating climate change from biodiversity hotspots: <strong>Anna Obi Akpe</strong>, from Nigeria, is one of the two 2024 Wetland Restoration Stewards. A graduate in plant and ecological studies, Anna is a passionate and dedicated biodiversity conservator. She will represent the Biodiversity Rescue Club (BRC)’s Mangrove Restoration Project (MRP), which aims to revive and reconstruct the natural structure and functioning of mangrove forests in the community of Esierebom in Calabar South Local Government Area, Cross River State, Nigeria. The project will enhance biodiversity, local livelihoods, carbon capture and water quality. To deepen the impact of their projects, they will be offered scientific and peer guidance, training, a grant of 5,000 EUR and other resources.
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INDIA - Environmentalist and Jana Sena leader Bolisetty Satyanarayana has sought demolition of all constructions in mangroves under Coringa Sanctuary near Kakinada Port, in view of enforcement of the Biodiversity Act in 2004. Three years ago, Deccan Chronicle highlighted the destruction of mangroves at Kakinada for the ‘housing for the poor’ project by the district officials. Based on this report, Bolisetty Satyanarayana filed a case before the National Green Tribunal. Satyanarayana and ornithologist K. Mruthyunjaya Rao visited the mangrove site near Dummulapeta here on Thursday and observed the development of mangroves. The environmentalist said that he approached NGT after Deccan Chronicle brought the destruction of mangroves to limelight some time ago. "The tribunal has delivered a clear order that the mangroves should be restored and it also suggested guidelines for this. But, the Kakinada district administration has not taken due note of the judgement. Hence, I approached NGT again."
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MEXICO - Mangrove forests in Mexico have undergone mass deforestation over the years, alongside hurricane damage that has adversely affected local populations, but a new insurance policy aims to protect the fishermen restoring swamps in the Yucatán Peninsula.<br>
In the last 20 years, 35% of the world’s mangrove forests have disappeared – that number rises to 70% in certain areas. This is due to a host of human causes and natural climate events, from deforestation and urbanisation to rising sea levels and cyclones. But even though the rate of mangrove forest loss has slowed in recent years, climate change and natural disasters are unpredictable, and can hit swamps and local communities hard. In fact, it’s estimated that a further 10-15% of mangroves could be lost by the end of the century, and this already results in damages worth $6-42B annually.
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<strong><span style="font-size:18px;">Green Gardening: We have a real SOS: Save Our Shorelines</span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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USA - Living shorelines incorporate plants and other natural elements to stabilize shorelines, increase and reinforce coastal resilience and provide habitat for fisheries. These shorelines are not only beautiful, they benefit the environment by buffering floodwater, reducing erosion, storing carbon, purifying water, increasing biodiversity and providing wildlife habitat. As they improve fisheries, they also promote recreation. Living shorelines have proven to perform far better during major storms than hardened shorelines. They also cost far less to establish and maintain.By 2025, it is estimated that 33% of all shorelines in the United States will be hardened with bulkheads or other materials that interrupt natural shoreline processes. Sadly, these structures decrease fisheries’ habitats and foraging habitat for wading birds, prevent natural marsh migration and degrade water quality by eliminating runoff filtration of pollutants and excess nutrients entering the ocean, lakes and estuaries. As waves break on them with nowhere to go and they also create seaward erosion.
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<span style="font-size:14px;">CAMBODIA - Fisherman Siem Huat has seen fish stocks dwindle in recent years in Cambodia's majestic Tonle Sap Lake, and with them, his family's sole source of income. Experts say extreme weather brought by climate change, ecological disruption from dam-building, wetland conversions, and overfishing threaten food supplies and livelihoods for the millions who depend on Southeast Asia's largest lake. "Sometimes there is rainfall in the wrong months or it gets so hot I can't go out to fish," said the 45-year-old Siem Huat, as he navigated his boat through mangroves to pull in nets carrying disappointingly few fish. The Mekong River typically swells in the rainy season as it converges with Cambodia's Tonle Sap River, sending an unusual reversed flow into the Tonle Sap Lake that fills up the latter and spawns bountiful fish stocks. But in recent years, the reversal has been delayed or disrupted, so that those who rely on the lake to earn a living find themselves in a battle to survive.</span>
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MEXICO - Antonio Merlin watched from his living room window as the ocean inched closer to his home. When the 55-year-old fisher built the concrete house with mosaic tile floors for his wife and four children in the village of El Bosque in 2002, the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico was nearly a kilometre away, a 15-minute walk from his back door. But since 2019, residents of El Bosque say a series of severe weather fronts, bringing heavy rain and powerful winds, have been eroding the shoreline. As the ocean has encroached, more than 60 homes in the village have been destroyed by the waves. Among them was Merlin’s, which was overtaken by the sea in 2021. “The idea that the sea would someday arrive at our door was unthinkable,” said Merlin, who has lived in the village since 1987. “Once the sea entered our homes, it began to knock them down one after another.”
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USA - In the heart of the Tampa Bay area lies the Mangrove ecosystem at Weedon Island Preserve. The preserve is just north of St. Petersburg and known for its hiking trails and historical significance."Weedon Island's mangrove forests are all interconnected by waterways, most of them natural creeks, and some of them are man-made channels. But that network of interconnected waterways creates a vast area of thick mangrove forest," said Kendal Jackson, PhD at the University of South Florida. The labyrinth of intertwined mangrove roots is a sanctuary for plants and animals that have seamlessly adapted to the distinctive habitat."Next time you’re out at Weedon Island Preserve, and you’re walking in the mangrove ecosystem, make sure that you stop, look around, and listen. You’ll observe a whole new world of wildlife and ecological interactions happening around you," said Jackson.
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<strong><span style="font-size:18px;color:#d50606;"><a href="https://www.regenwald.org/petitionen/1200/bitte-unterschreibt-rettet-die-murchison-falls" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF;" rel="noopener"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;color:#d50606;">Please sign: Save Murchison Falls!</span></strong></a></span></strong></p><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px">
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USA - Mangrove Action Project’s youth education program has been inspiring children for decades by teaching the essential value that mangroves bring to their community. Our international children's art calendar inspired children across the globe to take pens and paint in hand and submit works of art with the hope of being included. Over 350 artworks were submitted from 45 countries with 13 winning pieces selected for the 2024 Children's Mangrove Art Calendar and another 80 selected for MAP's Art Contest Gallery located on our website.(We'll share a link to the gallery next month.) You can receive a copy of our children's international mangrove art calendar as a free gift by making a donation of $100 or more on our website. We think you'll appreciate these beautiful, monthly works of art almost as much as our budding artists enjoyed creating them.
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TANZANIA - On the coast of Tanzania’s Mafia Island is a blue lagoon – a dreamlike pool of bright turquoise water, filtered and cooled by the mangroves that surround it. Ailars David, a marine conservation warden at the reserve, says there is a plan to build a boardwalk for tourists to reach the lagoon so they can swim surrounded by nature and the freshest of air. “When you look up, you only see trees and the sounds of birds,” David said on Nature, Land Use and Ocean Day,Nature Day”, at the Cop28 UN climate summit in Dubai. David hopes this nascent eco-tourism project can help fund work to patrol the Marine Protected Area’s more than 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of mangrove forest. Mangroves act as carbon sinks, absorbing large quantities of planet-heating carbon dioxide, as well as offering benefits from protecting biodiversity and purifying water to protecting coastlines from erosion as sea levels rise on a warming planet.
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GLOBAL - Mangroves and other coastal ecosystems are gaining attention in the international agenda, including as part of the UNFCCC COP28 presidency priorities, where a coalition of parties and non-state actors are building momentum to direct increased action for mangroves in support of the Mangrove Breakthrough. As of 2023, 97 countries have included coastal and marine ecosystems, including mangroves, in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, and 61 countries have included conservation or restoration of blue carbon ecosystems as mitigation and/or adaptation measures. Mangroves are highly relevant to the implementation of multiple goals and targets across the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) (Targets 1, 2, 3, 8, for instance), and Parties are expected to update their National Biodiversity Strategy and Adaptation Plans to align with the GBF goals by COP16 in 2024. Globally, 305 Ramsar sites contain mangrove ecosystems, and Parties under the Ramsar Convention are to pursue policies and regional initiatives to conserve and restoral coastal wetlands, including mangroves.
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TANZANIA - On the coast of Tanzania’s Mafia Island lies a blue lagoon – a dream-like pool of bright turquoise water, filtered and cooled by the mangroves which surround it. Ailars David, a marine conservation warden at the reserve, said the plan is to build a boardwalk for tourists to reach the lagoon so they can swim surrounded by nature and the freshest of air. David hopes this nascent “eco-tourism” project can help fund work to patrol the Marine Protected Area’s more than 5,000 hectares of mangrove forest on the island in the Indian Ocean off the east African coast, south of Zanzibar. Some locals on Mafia Island want to cut down the coastal vegetation as wood for cooking and fires, David said, while the area – popular with divers – is also under threat from tourist developments looking to clear trees to open access to the beach..
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GLOBAL - A report which offers a practical roadmap to scale up capital flow into mangrove protection and restoration has been launched at COP28. Developed by The Global Mangrove Alliance and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions (HLCs), in partnership with Systemiq the Mangrove Breakthrough: Financial Roadmap provides a pathway to achieve the financial goals of the Mangrove Breakthrough which was launched at COP27 and will be highlighted at a COP28 Ministerial on 9 December organized by the COP28 Presidency, the HLCs, the Mangrove Alliance for Climate, and the Global Mangrove Alliance. “Unlocking capital at scale for mangroves will be critical. Long term flows of public, private and philanthropic capital are needed to keep healthy mangroves standing, create nature and people-positive businesses and livelihoods, and to regenerate and restore degraded mangroves".
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USA - Mangroves and coastal dunes serve as a natural defense against storms. Despite the sheer magnitude of the wind, waves, and water that Hurricane Ian introduced to Southwest Florida, SCCF heard from many residents who believed things would have significantly been worse if they hadn't had a dune or mangroves protecting their properties. SCCF’s Pfeifer Fellow, Professor Emeritus Thomas T. Ankersen from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, and SCCF Coastal Resilience Manager Carrie Schuman, Ph.D., created the mangrove and dune survey to obtain this qualitative data. “The scientific literature contains a lot of analyses suggesting the importance of mangroves and dunes in protecting property, but very little of it focuses on individual properties,” Ankersen said.
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<span style="font-size:14px;">USA - The owner of Sandpiper Bay Resort in Port St Lucie, Florida — and the tenant who currently leases the property — face more than $110,000 in fines after approximately 944 protected mangrove trees were cut down across the property’s boundary earlier this year. Once home to a Club Med resort, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued a warning to the current owner, Store Capital Acquisitions LLC, following an inspection that revealed 17,789 square feet of mangroves along the property’s shoreline were destroyed — without a valid permit. According to an inspection report, a representative for the owner claimed the mangroves were cut down following tornado damage. However, inspectors noted healthy mangroves “full of foliage” stacked in nearby dumpsters. Further assessments uncovered that fill had been placed over the remaining mangrove roots — resulting in the discharge of fill material into the North Fork St. Lucie River Aquatic Preserve.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">MYANMAR - In the mangrove forests of central Myanmar a “cryptic” creature moved through the trees. Something about the scaly animal caught the attention of scientists. It turned out to be a new species. Researchers first encountered the green snakes during wildlife surveys in 2000 and 2001, according to a study published Dec. 13 in the journal ZooKeys. Initially, these snakes were misidentified as known species of pit viper. A DNA analysis of the “cryptic” snakes later revealed that the animals belonged to a “distinct species,” the study said.Intrigued, researchers took a closer look at 19 of these misidentified green snakes and realized they’d discovered a new species: Trimeresurus ayeyarwadyensis, or the Ayeyarwady pit viper. Ayeyarwady pit vipers can reach over 3 feet in length, the study said. They have “sharply” textured scales with an overall green coloring that varies in hue and pattern. Photos show several Ayeyarwady pit vipers. One snake has an ombré body, with its mossy green back fading to lime green and an almost yellow-white coloring on its belly.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;"><span style>FIJI - Mangroves, vital in protecting villages from environmental disasters, have been destroyed to build luxury hotels. In the crook of a river near the west coast of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/fiji" data-link-name="in body link" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF;">Fiji</a> sits Yavusania village. One day soon, if nothing is done to help, residents fear it will disappear.<strong> </strong>The threat is most obvious along the water’s edge, where successive flash floods have surged up a river once sheltered by mangrove forests, chewing away metres of soil and sand so trees left behind are held up by only a handful of roots. </span>Epeli Turuva, a 48-year-old community leader in Yavusania, sits near the weathered concrete foundations of an old home, half of which appears to have collapsed into the water below. It is not the only house to have done so: four other buildings have also collapsed during floods over the last few years<em>,</em> the most recent of which hit in March. </span><span style="font-size:14px;">Turuva worries his home will be next. “I don’t want to move,” he says. “Our land is rich, and our community is very close-knit. It’s hard to imagine life without this village.”</span>
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USA - Mangrove Action Project’s youth education program has been inspiring children for decades by teaching the essential value that mangroves bring to their community. Our international children's art calendar inspired children across the globe to take pens and paint in hand and submit works of art with the hope of being included. Over 350 artworks were submitted from 45 countries with 13 winning pieces selected for the 2024 Children's Mangrove Art Calendar and another 80 selected for MAP's Art Contest Gallery located on our website.(We'll share a link to the gallery next month.) You can receive a copy of our children's international mangrove art calendar as a free gift by making a donation of $100 or more on our website. We think you'll appreciate these beautiful, monthly works of art almost as much as our budding artists enjoyed creating them. For questions about multiple calendar orders please contact us at: <a href="mailto:info@mangroveactionproject.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #24213d;" rel="noopener">info@mangroveactionproject.org</a> Thank you!
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PERU - The Amazonian Indigenous movement is in collective mourning for the loss of Quinto Inuma Alvarado, a much admired and prominent Kichwa leader of the Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu community, in the San Martin region of the northern Peruvian Amazon. Quinto Inuma was a tireless defender of the human rights and territory of his community. Because of that he was murdered by hooded men on his way back from an event in the city of Pucallpa, Ucayali. This killing, which Quinto Inuma himself had repeatedly demanded State action to prevent, highlights the vulnerability of Indigenous leaders who face constant threats in the region. "So many years of suffering, I see no results. What have we received? Physical and psychological abuse. For the Peruvian state, with the corruption that exists today, informality trumps legality. If we assert our legal rights, they don't believe us. Illegality wins. That's the country we live in", Quinto Inuma Alvatado in 2020 in a report Ending Impunity
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GLOBAL - This online platform is dedicated to raising the visibility of the ocean and showcasing why the ocean matters in climate negotiations and to all life on our planet. It aims to democratize the ocean at COPs and promote unity and inclusivity, whilst increasing knowledge, commitment, and action for the ocean-climate nexus at key events during the UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, 30 November-12 December 2023. It is also a key tool in increasing transparency and equitable access to climate discussions and information. Registration is free and will provide you with online access to live ocean events on 22 November, 30 November, 8 December, 12 December and on-demand content from 22 November 2023 – 12 January 2024. All you will need is a Wi-Fi connection and a smart phone, tablet, or computer. We invite you to register your COP28 ocean-related events in the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m7CCnS4gl0c-TuGu944GFwi0zIxf0-jTb00t_nEgAX4/viewform?edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Ocean Events Tracker" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF;" tabindex="0">Ocean Events Tracker</a>. Entries will become part of a calendar of ocean events accessible through the Virtual Ocean Pavilion and based on information gathered through the Tracker.
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The sun sits low in the sky as David Borbón walks from one young mangrove to another, treading carefully so as not to disturb their roots. Borbón first arrived in El Delgadito as a young man in 1980, and he returned seasonally for the fishing—lobster, sea bass, halibut, and clams. “[Back then], mangroves were just branches that were in the way of navigating to go fishing. I didn’t have the slightest idea of their importance,” he recalls. By the time he permanently settled in the community in the early 2000s, he was hearing stories of overfishing, even in this remote area. Fishermen boated farther, used more gear and more gas, yet still came back with smaller catches and smaller fish. Borbón and his wife, Ana María Peralta, could see the changes but weren’t sure what to do. A conversation with their daughter, who was away at university, gave them insight into their next steps. She told them what she had been learning about mangroves: how they prevented coastal erosion, stored carbon, and provided a nursery habitat for myriad fish and crustacean species, many the same as those Borbón and other fishermen in El Delgadito were catching. The trees he had barely paid any attention to became the sole focus of his attention.
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USA - The Mangroves and their ecological importance are not only widely acknowledged, but also scientifically proven across the globe. According to the <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ndma.gov.in/sites/default/files/PDF/Reports/SDMA_Conclave_MOEFCC.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF;">National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)</a>, the Mangroves are extremely important to the coastal ecosystems. The wide variety of their ecological services includes serving as biodiversity hotspots, maintainers of water quality, sequesters of carbon, and providers of livelihood, among many others. They also serve as a buffer between marine and terrestrial communities and protect shorelines from damaging winds, waves, and floods. Because of these diverse benefits, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://moef.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mangroves-Coral-Reefs.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF;">recognizes them</a> as also being called as ‘Tidal Forests’, ‘Coastal Woodlands’, ‘Walking Forest in the Sea’, ‘Root of the Sea’ and ‘Oceanic Rain Forests’. Therefore, the importance of mangrove protection, preservation and increasing their cover, especially in the contemporary world of climate change is emphasized by many nations globally. The NDMA itself recognizes that conserving and restoring mangroves is essential to fighting climate change, and the warming of the global climate.
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USA - The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation’s Coastal Watch will host an Adopt-A-Mangrove Adoption Day on Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Native Landscapes & Garden Center at the Bailey Homestead Preserve, at 1300 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel. The Adopt-A-Mangrove program invites local community members to “adopt” mangroves to nurture at their homes. Those interested can pick up their mangrove seedling(s) at the event. Adopted plants will eventually be returned to the SCCF and planted at one of the shoreline restoration sites
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<span style="font-size:14px;">AUSTRALIA - A team of environmental scientists at the University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that sea level rise is encouraging mangrove expansion on some Great Barrier Reef islands. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes how they used a two-pronged approach to measure plant diversity and number of trees growing on the Howick Islands and what they found.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">MYANMAR - Along Asian coastlines, there are many areas where rural communities are experiencing alarming rates of sea-level rise due to the loss of their mangrove cover. Europe also has lost half of its wetlands, much of it through drainage. Last year, the Andalusian parliament legalized the widespread abstraction of underground water by strawberry farmers, which is drying up the Doñana wetland and leading to the desertification of Spain. Degradation of Sahelian wetlands in north-central Africa has caused resource scarcity, undermining human well-being and compelling people to migrate. In Indonesia, peat swamps are rapidly being logged, burned, and converted for agriculture, causing massive forest fires affecting the respiratory health of millions of people. Meanwhile, as you read this, the world’s largest tropical wetland ecosystem, the Pantanal of Brazil, is being scorched by wildfires. What, you may ask, does this have to do with an annual UN climate conference, COP28, which is focused on emissions reduction and coping with the impacts of a globally heating world? Well, everything.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">JAMAICA - “All of this was mangroves,” says marine scientist Mona Webber, pointing toward a line of ghostly gray boulders separating the road from the sea. We’re standing on the side of Norman Manley Highway, a raised road that squiggles along a spit of sand known as the Palisadoes and connects Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport with the capital of Kingston. Webber — tall, animated, and wearing a polo shirt emblazoned with the logo of her workplace, the University of the West Indies (UWI) — speaks with zest as she explains how developers took out about 6,000 mangrove trees while reconstructing the road several years ago. A succession of hurricanes, including Ivan in 2004, Dean in 2007, and Gustav in 2008, left the road covered in sand and impassable. “So, after those hurricanes, they raised the road by 2 meters [6 feet] and put boulders on both sides,” Webber says, “and they decided we didn’t need the mangroves.”
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USA - Mangrove Action Project’s youth education program has been inspiring children for decades by teaching the essential value that mangroves bring to their community. Our international children's art calendar inspired children across the globe to take pens and paint in hand and submit works of art with the hope of being included. Over 350 artworks were submitted from 45 countries with 13 winning pieces selected for the 2024 Children's Mangrove Art Calendar and another 80 selected for MAP's Art Contest Gallery located on our website.(We'll share a link to the gallery next month.) You can receive a copy of our children's international mangrove art calendar as a free gift by making a donation of $100 or more on our website. We think you'll appreciate these beautiful, monthly works of art almost as much as our budding artists enjoyed creating them. For questions about multiple calendar orders please contact us at: <a href="mailto:info@mangroveactionproject.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #24213d;" rel="noopener">info@mangroveactionproject.org</a> Thank you!
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ECUADOR - José Ordinola and Mauricio Cruz wade waist-deep into a small channel that flows from the Gulf of Guayaquil into the Arenillas Ecological Reserve mangrove swamp, a protected area on the southern Ecuadorian coast just a few miles north of the border with Peru. The tide has receded enough to allow them to cross into the forest and harvest the day’s catch. The crabbers, or cangrejeros, climb through the dense tangle of roots to locate small openings in the ground where red mangrove crabs rest in deep, muddy burrows. On any given day, there could be 30 crabbers working the mangrove roots in this area. Besides simply relying on the mangrove’s abundant shellfish, they also manage and care for the trees. “The mangrove for me is life,” says Cruz. “The mangrove protects the species from which we survive, not just us — but our families. That’s why we sustain it.”
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<span style="font-size:14px;">UGANDA - An oil pipeline under construction in east Africa will produce vast amounts of carbon dioxide, according to new analysis. The project will result in 379m tonnes of climate-heating pollution, according to an expert assessment, more than 25 times the combined annual emissions of Uganda and Tanzania, the host nations. The East African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) will transport oil drilled in a biodiverse national park in Uganda more than 870 miles to a port in Tanzania for export. The main backers of the multibillion dollar project are the French oil company TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).An oil pipeline under construction in east Africa will produce vast amounts of carbon dioxide, according to new analysis. The project will result in 379m tonnes of climate-heating pollution, according to an expert assessment, more than 25 times the combined annual emissions of Uganda and Tanzania, the host nations. The East African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) will transport oil drilled in a biodiverse national park in Uganda more than 870 miles to a port in Tanzania for export. .</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">GAMBIA - The management team of The Gambia Mangrove REDD+ Project held a mangrove restoration awareness forum for decision makers, local authorities and members of the media at Mansakonko Area Council Conference Hall. The day-forum was designed to effectively inform participants about the importance of mangrove planting and the existing project. The “Conservation and restoration of the mangrove ecosystem in The Gambia through the REDD+ mechanism” project aims at restoring and conserving mangroves in The Gambia. The project mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration and storage, enhances biodiversity and has positive rural livelihood effects, including enhanced oyster collection, fishing and fiscal revenues to the participating communities. </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">USA - Growing up in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Jill Hamilton always felt connected to nature — and knew she would pursue a career to protect it. But time spent on the coast with family drew her from the mountains to the ocean. Now at Conservation International, she works at the intersection of policy and ocean science — helping governments and decision-makers protect marine and coastal ecosystems. Hamilton works to advise governments and other global decision-makers, like the United Nations climate change secretariat, how mangrove and seagrass conservation and restoration can help address the impacts of climate change. Conservation News spoke with Hamilton about how she transformed a passion for the outdoors into a career in international policy — and her advice for others seeking to do the same. </span>
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PAKISTAN - Wildlife ranger Mohammad Jamali boats through mangrove forests of the Indus River Delta, the terminus of a curly waterway that begins thousands of miles upstream in the Himalayas. Birds flutter in and out. Insects dart around mangrove roots that poke like fingers out of the mud. It looks ancient, but this part of the forest is only 5 years old. "We planted this," says Jamali, 28-years-old. We — rangers of the wildlife department of the government of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh, and locals of nearby fishing communities. This forest in southern Pakistan is part of one of the world's largest mangrove restoration projects, covering much of the vast delta, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island. These trees, which exist in slivers between sea and land, are powerhouses of sucking up the carbon dioxide that is dangerously heating up the planet.
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<span style="font-size:14px;">AUSTRALIA - Some mangrove forests off Australia have flourished in the last several decades, a new study reports. And, counterintuitively, rising sea levels may be responsible. Off Australia’s northern coast, the skeletal remains of ancient coral reefs form the bedrock of numerous wooded islands. These low-lying tropical oases are home to diverse animals and plants, including mangrove forests that pepper their coasts and serve as vital habitat and carbon storers. A recent survey of one cluster of those islands — the first in 50 years — shows that swelling seas might have led to a massive mangrove expansion, researchers report November 1 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In other parts of the world, rising seas <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-level-rise-mangrove-forests" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF;">have put mangroves at risk</a> (<em>SN: 6/4/20</em>). But at the Howick Islands in the Great Barrier Reef, the story is different because of its unique geologic history.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">NEW ZEALAND - "Don't blame the mangroves," is a key take-away of an international collaboration looking into vegetation removal, sedimentation, and coastal restoration. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows coastal restoration on a smaller local scale isn't going to cut through the mud without larger scale catchment change. Contributing author, oceanographer Professor Karin Bryan from the University of Waikato says, "Going into the work we thought we knew what was going to happen, but the modeling showed surprisingly different outcomes—mangroves do not trap and cause sedimentation build up as we'd anticipated." The researchers used computational models based on New Zealand estuaries to assess sedimentation inputs, and the frictional effects of mangroves on the sedimentation.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">PAPUA-NEW GUINEA - Dulcie and Koivi Egu tend to hundreds of little black bags, each with a single mangrove tree sprouting from the top. The father-daughter duo started their nursery not long ago near Bootless Bay, outside Papua New Guinea’s capital city of Port Moresby. It’s part of a larger project to help regenerate the area’s lost shoreline mangrove trees. Meanwhile, hours away in the mountainside village of Simbukanam, Lawrence Micah is working with local communities to formalize land ownership maps that can be used to prevent loggers from encroaching onto their forested land, and to hold them accountable in court if they do. Though both efforts face uniquely different challenges, they are both trying to save the forests upon which their communities depend. The nation’s human diversity is only matched by its ecology: The island of New Guinea boasts the third-largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world, and 30% of its flora and fauna are endemic.
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GLOBAL - Soham Bhattacharyya has been named overall winner of this year's Mangrove Photography Awards, for his image of an endangered tigress in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, India. Mr Bhattacharyya's winning image, called The Finest Flower of the Mangroves, shows a young Royal Bengal tigress in its natural mangrove habitat, peering at the photographer. "The solitary figure of the tiger, standing amidst the lush green mangrove forest vegetation, poignantly underscores the isolation it must endure in an ever-shrinking habitat," said competition judge Daisy Gilardini. In 2021, West Bengal Forest Department estimated there were only 96 Royal Bengal tigers in the region. Run by the Mangrove Action Project, the photo competition - now in its ninth year - aims to show the relationships between wildlife, coastal communities and mangrove forests, as well as the fragility of these unique ecosystems, both above and below the waterline.
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<span style="font-size:14px;">INDONESIA - For generations, the seafaring Duano Indigenous community in Indonesia’s Riau province has relied on paddles and basic nets for their livelihood, launching small boats into healthy fishing grounds off the eastern coast of Sumatra. In the past, a single Duano canoeist could haul 80 kilograms (176 pounds) of fish to shore every day, explained Samsuri, a fish trader who belongs to one of 33 families of the Duano community here in Kuala Selat village. Instead, many here now rely on poorly paid day labor to make ends meet. Young people are increasingly crewing long shifts at sea on larger fishing vessels or taking casual work hauling aggregates on land.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">INDONESIA - One person died and more were seriously injured after Indigenous Bangkal community members protested against a Palm Oil company that has taken over their customary lands. On 7th October, Indonesian police violently repressed a demonstration of Indigenous People who were protesting the occupation of their traditional lands by a subsidiary of the large palm oil group, Best Agro. The action took place on the customary lands of the Dayak Banjar Indigenous people. They were objecting to the takeover of their customary lands by the oil palm company, PT Hamparan Massawit Bangun Persada (HMBP), without providing smallholdings. </span>
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UGANDA - In Uganda, police again violently broke up a peaceful demonstration against the EACOP oil pipeline and arrested four students. One of them contracted tuberculosis in jail. Nine young men have been on trial for a year on similar charges. On September 15, about 50 students marched through Kampala to present a petition against the EACOP oil pipeline to the Ugandan parliament. However, police officers denied them access, kicked and punched a number of students and arrested four. They spent the weekend in jail and are out on bail. According to the Guardian, Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, condemned the arrests as “very disturbing”. Kajubi Maktum, one of the detainees, contracted tuberculosis in the notoriously overcrowded jail. “The government has threatened us and tried to scare us. We will not be intimidated.”
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<span style="font-size:14px;">TANZANIA - Tanzania’s vice president, wearing sunglasses and a bright yellow hijab, leaned over the waist-high concrete sea wall along Barack Obama Drive and gazed upon an expanse of Indian Ocean. More than 11 years had passed since Tanzania adopted its National Adaptation Program of Action, which identified “the construction of artificial structures, e.g., sea walls” as a priority to offset projected sea-level rise of between 1.5 and 3 feet over the coming century. (Subsequent studies have estimated sea-level rise in Tanzania will be between 0.5 and 1.4 feet by 2050.) Without action, experts say, the Tanzanian coastline could become inundated with seawater by the end of the 21st century. Such an outcome would be devastating for East Africa, one of the world’s emerging commercial hubs.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">OMAN - n a muddy wetland in Oman's capital, environmental scientist Zakiya al-Afifi measures the bark of a mangrove tree, estimating its capacity to absorb the carbon dioxide that is slowly heating the planet. Standing in the leafy reserve, shielded from the fierce sun, she says the Al-Qurm forest's 80 protected hectares (197 acres) of mangroves could lock away thousands of tons of CO2. "Mangroves are the richest carbon sink in the world," says Afifi, wearing boots and a white lab coat as she leads a group of university students around the swamp. Inspired by the late ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said, a renowned conservationist who died in 2020, the country of 4.5 million people has become the Gulf's centre for mangrove restoration and preservation.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">THAILAND - From Khao Sok National Park in the southwest to Phu Chi Fa Forest Park in the north, forests cover around 30% of Thailand’s total area. Approximately 23 million people live near or in these lush green landscapes, depending on them for sustenance and livelihoods. But that’s now at risk, due to both climate change-related threats and the policies implemented to protect the forests. “If this land is coming under the ownership of the government, it means that it is illegal for the villagers to live in this area,” said Malee Sitthikriengkrai, a professor at the Center for Ethnic Studies and Development at Chiang Mai University. The Manushya report notes: “Instead of choosing to phase out fossil fuels, the government continues to fight against the most marginalized forest-dwelling communities and Indigenous peoples, leaving the big polluters to keep making money.”
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<span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Tropical Forests May Be Getting Too Hot for Photosynthesis</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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GLOBAL - Climate change is already making a small proportion of tropical tree leaves so hot that their photosynthetic machinery bakes and breaks, according to new research. The study, published in Nature, finds that even when the surrounding air is significantly cooler than the leaves themselves, some 0.01 percent of individual leaves can reach a critical temperature at which the enzymes required for photosynthesis go through a process called denaturation—the same type of irreversible change that egg proteins in cake batter undergo in the oven. “It’s put some really hard numbers to what we already know intuitively: that it is getting too hot for trees and for tropical forests,” says Stephanie Pau, a global change ecologist at Florida State University, who was not involved in the new research. Although only a small proportion of leaves are currently reaching this feverlike state, study co-author Christopher Doughty, an earth systems scientist at Northern Arizona University, says the findings are still starker than he’d expected.
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Empowering Madagascar’s Mangroves for Sustainable Development</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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<span style="font-size:14px;">MADAGASCAR - In light of the recently held United Nations SDG Summit 2023 and UN SDG Action Campaign, Feed the Minds’ Programme Support Officer Jaz Counsell shares how one of Feed the Minds’ projects directly contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In partnership with Tanjona Association, Feed the Minds’ project on improving biodiversity and livelihoods for women in Mandrosoa village in Madagascar started in February 2023. 90% of the community relies on the mangrove ecosystem for their livelihoods.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Quantifying the contribution of mangroves to local fish consumption in Indonesia</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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<span style="font-size:14px;">INDONESIA - Indonesia has lost more mangroves than any other country. The importance of mangroves for carbon storage and biodiversity is well recognised, but much less is known about what they contribute to the communities living near them who are called on to protect them. Malnutrition in Indonesia is high, with more than a third of children stunted, partly due to poor diets. Fish are nutrient-rich and are the most widely consumed animal source food in Indonesia, making the relationship between mangroves and fish consumption of great importance. </span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Working on making mangroves as pillar of blue economy's resilience</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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<span style="font-size:14px;">For Indonesia, as the ASEAN chair this year, development of the blue economy deserves to receive attention, as oceans constitute three-quarters of its territory. The Ministry of National Development Planning is targeting the blue economy sector to contribute up to 15 percent to the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2045 or to increase by around three folds the current figure of 5.3 percent. To this end, the government is currently striving to develop seven aspects of the blue economy.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Illegal fishing major maritime threat in Gulf of Guinea, costing West Africa $26bn</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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<span style="font-size:14px;">GHANA - The West African sub-region annually loses $26 billion to illegal fishing and illicit trade in marine resources, a senior Ghanian official has warned, echoing a recent report by an independent intergovernmental body that globally, nature is declining at rates unprecedented in human history, and species’ extinction is accelerating at an alarming rate. In an address to selected media personnel at a workshop held in Accra that focused on the nature crimes in Ghana, the West African country’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor, said that “on the economic front, Interpol estimates that 38% of global criminal proceeds are derived from nature crimes.”</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>FAO, partners sensitise rural Gambia on mangrove revival</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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<span style="font-size:14px;">GAMBIA - Food and Agricultural Organization in partnership with GCF-funded Climate Resilient Fishery Initiative for Livelihood Improvement in The Gambia (PROREFISH Gambia) recently sensitised communities in rural Gambia on the importance of protecting mangrove ecosystems. The rural outreach, which targets a total of 180 participants from nine rural communities, seeks to secure livelihoods and fortify the environment, giving hope to communities that are fast losing a substantial portion of mangroves in their brackish waters. Aruna Jobe, Natural Resources Specialist, Food and Agriculture Oganisation, said mangrove restoration is not just about planting trees; but rather it's about empowering communities to be the guardians of their future.</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">USA - The mangroves kept Ian from doing more damage to Southwest Florida. That’s part of what makes them a critical part of our ecosystem. They also create a habitat for our fish and wildlife. But Ian left the mangroves in bad shape, making it hard for them to grow again. They were left gray and weak by the storm. Now two groups are working together to restore them. “They play a huge role in protecting our shorelines from storm surge and from storms,” said Captain Chris Wittman, Co-Founder of Captains for Clean Water. “We saw that with hurricanes in the past, including hurricane Ian, and the areas where there was good, connected mangrove habitat, mitigated a lot of the surge and a lot of the wave action.” But after protecting our coastline, we now know, it was more than just the leaves that were stripped. It was the seeds as well.</span>
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<span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Mangrove Ranger Crowned Miss Cayman Islands Universe 2023</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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CAYMAN ISLANDS - The Mangrove Rangers offer their congratulations to fellow Ranger Ileann Powery on winning the Miss Universe Cayman Islands, pageant. Ileann has been an integral part of the Mangrove Rangers for the past two years. Using her talents as a videographer and reporter, she has followed the trail of the Rangers as they apply their education programs to Cayman's cmmunities and their schools. As the rangers' founder and executive director of its parent organization the Mangrove Education Project (MEP), Martin Keeley says “I cannot emphasize enough how much Ileann has been a key part of showing Cayman exactly what the rangers do and the vital importance to Cayman of our coastal ecosystem with its mangroves, seagrass and reefs. She is an extremely talented videographer and it shows in her productions." Ileann has also helped the rangers produce a series of "how to" videos which show teachers just how to carry out hands-on activities with their students.
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Scientists investigate potential of sustainable protection of rapidly subsiding coastlines with mangroves</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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INDONESIA - Along the Asian coastlines there are many areas where rural communities experience alarming rates of sea level rises due to land subsidence up to 10 cm per year. This causes tremendous challenges on how to live there and protect these coasts. A Dutch-Indonesian team of scientists jointly investigated the potential and limitation of mangrove restoration as a cost-effective and sustainable solution for coastal protection in rapidly subsiding areas. They have published their findings in Nature Sustainability.
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KENYA - Under new landmark legislation passed by Kenyan lawmakers, profits from clean air projects will be granted to citizens most affected by the effects of Earth’s rising temperatures.Communities will receive 40% of the profits generated by land-based air pollution reduction initiatives in their local area, and 25% of the money raised by water-based investments, such as the planting of mangrove forests, will also be diverted. This move sees Kenya doubling down on its commitment to carbon tax credits.
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<strong><span style="font-size:16px;">Our efforts in restoring mangrove ecosystem crucial, but are we doing it right?</span></strong></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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KENYA - According to Julie Mulonga, the Director of Eastern Africa at Wetlands International, Kenya has witnessed the loss of 1,000 hectares of mangrove forest over the past two decades. Hence, various stakeholders have made concerted efforts to plant mangroves, with the aim of bolstering the forest cover and fostering biodiversity in the region. However, scientists have expressed growing concerns about the manner in which mangrove conservation is being conducted. Dr Dominic Wodehouse, the Executive Director of the Mangrove Action Project (MAP), emphasises that mangrove ecosystems differ significantly from terrestrial forests.
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MYANMAR - With about 500,000 hectares of mangroves along its coastline at the edge of the Bay of Bengal, Myanmar has the eighth largest area of mangroves in the world. They not only nurture highly productive and biologically rich ecosystems for many species, but also absorb huge amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and provide protection from erosion by the sea. But Myanmar’s mangroves used to be even bigger, as vast areas of these valuable coastal forests have been swallowed up for agriculture, urban expansion and economic development since the mid-1990s. According to the United Nations Development Programme, mangroves disappeared from Myanmar at an average of 3.6 to 3.9 percent per year between 1996 and 2016.
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AUSTRALIA - People are being warned to stay away from a popular and vast mangrove area after one stretch of water experienced a radical change in colour. In a bizarre photo shared to Reddit on Monday, the water near a walkway appeared bright pink. A Brisbane City Council spokesperson said on Tuesday council officers would visit the site to assess the health of the waterway but stressed pink water can occur naturally as a result of environmental factors. "Warmer weather and low rain fall can lead to less water flow and higher salt levels, causing the algae and bacteria in the water to turn pink," the spokesperson said.
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<span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Improved mangrove conservation could yield cash, carbon, coastal benefits</strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class
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AUSTRALIA - A shift in the way we think about the benefits mangroves provide to coastal regions could yield significant economic and biodiversity gains and protect millions from flooding, research has revealed. The University of Queensland-led study shows current conservation efforts typically target biodiversity protection while minimizing conflict with economic interests, failing to consider the huge benefits provided by ecosystems. The research is published in Nature Communications. "As it stands, current conservation efforts just aren't doing enough to take advantage of these services."
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<div><img width="400" title="spider_Chilobrachys-natanicharum_Yuranan-Nanthaisong_1medium-2048x1366" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2023/09/21095910/spider_Chilobrachys-natanicharum_Yuranan-Nanthaisong_1medium-2048x1366.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="spider_Chilobrachys-natanicharum_Yuranan-Nanthaisong_1medium-2048x1366" align="left">THAILAND - Researchers unearthed a new species of tarantula exhibiting a vibrant electric blue coloration, nestled within the enigmatic landscapes of Thailand’s mangrove forests. This exciting discovery unfolded in the Phang-Nga province and is the inaugural record of a tarantula species dwelling in Thai mangrove ecosystems. Dr. Narin Chomphuphuang and his research ensemble, accompanied by local wildlife aficionado and YouTuber JoCho Sippawat, embarked on this trailblazing expedition following the revelation of Taksinus bambus — the first tarantula known to inhabit bamboo stalks, in Thailand. Their quest was driven by the zeal to delve deeper into the secretive world of these arachnids. The distinctive electric blue of the tarantula immediately distinguished it from its peers, its color acting as a beacon in the dense, dark green foliage. Narin explained, “The first specimen we found was on a tree in the mangrove forest. These tarantulas inhabit hollow trees, presenting a challenge in catching them, as one needs to climb trees and lure them out of complex hollows amidst humid and slippery conditions.” The expedition meticulously maneuvered through the terrain in the evenings and nocturnal hours during low tide, overcoming obstacles to collect two specimens, showcasing the tarantula’s elusive nature. The electric blue tarantula, it was discovered, doesn’t owe its striking coloration to pigments, but rather to the intricate nanostructures within their hair, manipulating light to craft the illustrious blue hue, sometimes revealing an enchanting violet tint, creating a mesmerizing iridescent effect.<br>
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<div style="clear: both;"><img width="400" title="tenn-environmentalist-Will-Charouhis" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/UNGA-1536x864.jpg" height="225" border="0" alt="tenn-environmentalist-Will-Charouhis" align="left">UNITED NATIONS - “Climate collapse has begun.” With these ominous words, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres kicked off this year’s U.N. General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. Guterres’ opening press conference, following blistering summer heatwaves that shattered temperature records on virtually every continent on Earth, was meant to spark urgency among the world’s decision-makers. Reminding his compatriots that “climate change is here,” Guterres said: “It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning.” It is with this warning in mind that, as my own flight landed in New York, I pondered my purpose. I was set to speak with a panel of youth on our hopes for the outcome of this pivotal assembly. For those who’ve followed my journey as a teen environmentalist, you’re familiar with my optimism. And while some might label my hopefulness as naivete or downright delusion, for so long as one mangrove survives the heat in our warming city, I’ll continue in my refusal to see my world through a bleak lens and keep pursuing my lofty goal to halt climate change. Because to do anything less ensures an unthinkable ending. But to borrow the words of American journalist David Wallace-Wells, “It’s time to panic.” Guterres’ goal as the General Assembly picks up speed over the next few days is for the 193 member states to commit to take enough action to catch up on the lagging sustainable development goals that will ensure our very survival. The 17 sustainable development goals, known as the SDGs, were entered into voluntarily by all nations in 2015 and are considered essential to achieve by 2030 to ensure a sustainable future for us all.</div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>UGANDA Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters! </strong><a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1269/uganda-stop-criminalizing-pipeline-protesters?mtu=578455638&t=16157">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<div><img width="400" title="bees=make-honey" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox13news.com/www.fox13news.com/content/uploads/2023/09/932/524/65a0acef-wtvt-00001.jpg?ve=1&tl=1%20" height="225" border="0" alt="bees=make-honey" align="left">USA - Josh Harris is a commercial fisherman with a deep love for Tampa Bay. "From the time I was two years old is my earliest memories of fishing off my grandfather’s dock," he recalled. But it's his other business venture that has this conservationist buzzing with excitement. Harris owns Queen and Colony Bee Company and manages 200 colonies around Tampa Bay. Harris has noticed something special at his hives close to the water. His bees are producing mangrove honey. "It’s a rare honey in Florida because we don’t have the concentration of mangroves we used to," he explained. Since the 1900s, Tampa Bay has lost about half of its mangrove trees due to development, climate change, and water pollution. And that's not good for the health of the bay. "They are along the coastline; they stabilize the shoreline. They prevent erosion, and they also filter nutrients and pollutants from the water. So, they clean the water," shared Harris. Harris said the hard work of his bees is directly helping the mangrove population around Tampa Bay. "As the bees go around and pollinate the flowers, they allow those trees to go to seed. The seeds will fall into the bay and get spread around by the tides and the wind and have the opportunity to produce new mangrove trees that will continue that process of cleaning the water," explained Harris. As he sees new mangrove growth around his hives, it gives him hope for the future of Tampa Bay. "As a commercial fisherman, I rely on the fish in Tampa Bay and the crabs to provide for my family. We want to see our livelihood continue. We want to see our children have the opportunity to continue the tradition," shared Harris.<br>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<h3>Due to technical problems, we are required to change the email address for submission to this year’s MAP Children’s Art Contest for the the upcoming 2024 Calendar. <span style="color:#FF0000;">If you have already submitted art please contact Monica at </span><a style="text-align: center;" href="mailto:ArtContest@mangroveactionproject.org?subject=2024%20Children's%20Art"><strong>ArtContest@mangroveactionproject.org</strong></a> to be sure your submissions have been received or for instructions on how to resubmit. If you have not yet submitted, please submit to this new email address before the <u><span style="color:#FF0000;">August 31 deadline</span></u>.</h3>
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<div><img width="400" title="Kylian-Razaze-holding-artwork_Mauritius" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Kylian-Razaze-holding-artwork_Mauritius.jpeg" height="266" border="0" alt="Kylian-Razaze-holding-artwork_Mauritius" align="left">GLOBAL - Mangrove Action Project (MAP) 22nd annual Mangrove Art Contest submissions closes August 31. This is an opportunity for the younger generation to share what they have learned about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world by letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art. The competition is open to all children worldwide, with selected winners published in the 2024 calendar to be distributed internationally to raise awareness of mangrove forest ecology. This colorful calendar has increased in popularity since its first publication in 2002. The 2024 calendar is our 22nd edition. We would like to invite children from your country to join in this fantastic creative and educational competition. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art. For any questions, contact Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, the international art competition coordinator at:<strong><a href="mailto:ArtContest@mangroveactionproject.org?subject=2024%20Children%27s%20Art">ArtContest@mangroveactionproject.org</a></strong> or visit our website below.<br>
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<div><img width="400" title="Vice-president-jafo" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://static.africa-press.net/tanzania/sites/17/2021/07/jafooooooo.jpg" height="250" border="0" alt="Vice-president-jafo" align="left">TANZANIA - THE government has reiterated its commitment to encourage planting of more mangroves in coastal areas to enhance carbon trading and address effects of climate change. The assurance was made on Wednesday by the Minister of State in the Vice-President Office (Union and Environment), Dr Selemani Jafo, during a meeting with members of the Parliamentary Committee on subsidiary legislations. The meeting was a follow up on implementation of resolutions made during the previous Parliament sessions which discussed about the analysis of the subsidiary legislations. Dr Jafo admitted that coastal areas were facing the challenge of being eaten up by sea water due to increased sea depth, so the government continues dealing with the challenge by building walls and ridges to reduce the speed of the sea waves. Speaking about carbon trading, he noted the government invites investors to use the opportunity of planting mangroves in the coastal areas that face environmental challenges. He also explained that in some coastal areas, mangroves are swept by sea water, a situation which causes the shores of the sea to erode, hence causing floods. Minister Jafo further encouraged farmers to continue cultivating cash crops, arguing that such crops apart from giving them profit, will also benefit from the carbon trade.
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<strong>Burning mangrove trees for a living: 'I'd quit tomorrow if I could'</strong><br>
<em>Editors Note: Western demand for mangrove charcoal continues to drive a market for their destruction. Sadly those who do the cutting see no choice as it is their only means of support. Economists refer to this a “wicked problem” meaning to solve one problem leads to another. MAP is working with local communities to educate them on finding alternative sustainable means of support, while educating western consumers to reduce their consumption of non-sustainable products like mangrove charcoal.</em><br>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>UGANDA Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters! </strong><a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1269/uganda-stop-criminalizing-pipeline-protesters?mtu=578455638&t=16157">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
Urge SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration to do more to protect Boca Chica and its wildlife. <a href="https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/4XMDa1Nlok6L-mn0El8q4w2?sourceid=1008843&utm_source=eeo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eeo1191&contactdata=StOLwb6u%2Bhl3ePjjqmSFkLmCDyaeGnXj7WqWjGQVycPdAeqkYOe4fUp0LlPU%2BXxS5tCiOwQWsPPQP0OD28TdVoSfsvYeafY6WCrqKcKeuXcx12%2BoEsX%2FziTYZTmSNKuTdzoRj10yOoT1cmW%2FnGwvxA%3D%3D&emci=1f626172-eae9-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=eab2e6b8-c7ea-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&ceid=2323674">SIGN THE PETITION</a><br>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!</strong> <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1261/drc-do-not-sacrifice-congos-rainforests-to-the-oil-industry?mtu=558889476&t=13343">TAKE ACTION</a><br>
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<strong>TAKE MAP SURVEY</strong> Please see the <a href="https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/T1BjKW">survey questionnaire</a> we at MAP put together to discover where the shrimp industry is still having major adverse effects on mangroves and local communities.<br>
<a href="https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/T1BjKW">TAKE THE SURVEY</a><br>
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<strong>Stop this total madness</strong> Stop the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world -- right through the heart of Africa!<br>
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/total_africa_oil_pipeline_2022_11/?kPSDMsb">CLICK HERE</a></span></font></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Vh7CoPBLQa8"><img width="200" title="Restoring natural forests" style="width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4d7fdd07bd/Screen-Shot-2019-03-29-at-12.38.08-PM.jpg" height="120" border="0" alt="Restoring natural forests" align="none"></a><br>
<strong>Restoring The Natural Mangrove Forest</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be"><img width="200" title="Rufiji-Delta" style="width: 200px; height: 113px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/9ab9975f5c/Rufiji-Delta.jpg" height="113" border="0" alt="Rufiji-Delta" align="none"></a><br>
<strong>Community Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Rufiji Delta</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></font></p>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A"><img width="200" title="Mangrove-education" style="width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DCJW8455-e1556272236667-uai-1012x675.jpg" height="133" border="0" alt="Mangrove-education" align="none"></a><br>
Our short presentation will give you a better understanding of the issues we are working to solve.<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A">WATCH PRESENTATION</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>What is CBEMR?<br>
Download MAP's 2 page CBEMR Information Sheet<br>
containing links to all MAP's CBEMR resources </strong><br>
<a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CBEMR-Infosheet-AUG-2019.pdf">CLICK HERE</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>View MAP’s uploaded Videos at</strong><br>
<a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/portfolio-video/">MAP Video Gallery</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVJbUHGAQg">WATCH VIDEO</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
<a href="https://malaysia.wetlands.org/publications/mangrove-guidebook-for-malaysia/">Click Here</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>SHARE MAP'S VISION</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUwYZ9CI0A">CLICK HERE</a> to watch short introductory video.<br>
Together we can work "at the roots of the sea".</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA"><img width="200" title="EPIC-Film 2" style="width: 200px; height: 128px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4912923153/EPIC-Film%202.jpg" height="128" border="0" alt="EPIC-Film 2" align="none"></a></span></font><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-size: 13.3333px;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq1D0h4YFQE&feature=player_embedded"><font color="#000000"><img width="200" title="MAP%20Curriculum%20Video" style="width: 200px; height: 108px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/9bb092ee09/MAP%20Curriculum%20Video.jpg" height="108" border="0" alt="MAP%20Curriculum%20Video" align="none"><br>
Marvellous Mangroves – A Curriculum-Based Teachers Guide.</font></a></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">*Articles in this newsletter may mention practices being used and/or show exagerated results being claimed without proof. Stories are presented here in effort to show mangrove related activity around the world and do not necessarily reflect Mangrove Action Project's views or mangrove restoration best-practices.</span></p>
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<h3>Due to technical problems, we are required to change the email address for submission to this year’s MAP Children’s Art Contest for the the upcoming 2024 Calendar. <span style="color:#FF0000;">If you have already submitted art please contact Monica at </span><a style="text-align: center;" href="mailto:ArtContest@mangroveactionproject.org?subject=2024%20Children's%20Art"><strong>ArtContest@mangroveactionproject.org</strong></a> to be sure your submissions have been received or for instructions on how to resubmit. If you have not yet submitted, please submit to this new email address before the August 31 deadline.</h3>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;">Discarded Plastic Blights Honduran Mangrove Island</span></strong><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt;"><em>Editor’s Note: This news story is particularly sad for MAP because we implemented a CBEMR training workshop in Honduras in 2015 on this island that is now being inundated with trash. We can teach others to restore mangroves, but we still can't stop people from trashing our planet on their lazy way through life.</em></span><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="mangroves-suffocating" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://www.enca.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-08/mangroves.jpg?itok=DMK6p49i" height="266" border="0" alt="mangroves-suffocating" align="left">HONDURASA heron chick flutters clumsily after hatching in a nest on a mangrove island littered with plastic waste in the Gulf of Fonseca, along the Pacific Coast of Central America. The air fills with shrieks of other seabirds also nesting on Los Pajaros Island, in the San Lorenzo Wildlife Reserve, set amid turquoise waters shared by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Thousands of herons, gulls, pelicans, frigate birds, roseate spoonbills and other seabirds dwell in the tangle of<br>
branches on this 2.5 hectare island. But they share it these days with unwanted mounds of plastic bottles, tangles of fish netting and other discarded trash washed up on its shores. Residents in inland cities often throw their plastic waste into rivers that empty into the Gulf of Fonseca, despoiling the once-pristine habitat.An activist group, the Committee for the Defense and Development of the Flora and Fauna of the Gulf of Fonseca, has joined forces with the Forest Conservation Institute of Honduras (ICF) and municipalities along the coast to conduct cleanups.<br>
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<div style="clear: both;"><img width="400" title="using-ai-to-save-mangroves" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://assets-global.website-files.com/5f6cc9cd16d59d990c8fca33/64c7e0b0258fa8ec372f6162_wwf-mangroves-mexico.jpg" height="294" border="0" alt="using-ai-to-save-mangroves" align="left">GLOBAL – The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and Google.org (Google’s philanthropic arm) announced the launch of a project called ManglarIA. Spanish for “AI for Mangroves,” ManglarIA is a new, three-year project that will utilize artificial intelligence to understand how mangrove ecosystems — and their contributions to coastal communities — are affected by climate change. Mangroves are a uniquely resilient and helpful species. They are a group of shrubs or trees that grow along coastlines and tidal rivers and are able to store carbon at about four times the rate of other types of forests. They are an essential nature-based solution to climate change, providing vital levels of carbon sequestration and biodiversity to coastal ecosystems and economies — and it’s critical that they are protected. The project will identify key indicators of the health of mangroves and provide conservationists with better information to protect them, creating scalable and measurable solutions that can be replicated in other coastal regions. <br>
Google.org has invested $5 million in ManglarIA, choosing the project from hundreds of submissions as part of its Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation grant program. “We were looking for large-scale, ambitious, AI-enabled solutions that focus on funding the creation of data as a public good,” Google.org’s sustainability giving lead, Brian Juhyuk Lee, told Good Good Good in an email.
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<div><img width="400" title="coastal-cleanup-day" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://volunteercleanup.org/wp-content/uploads/event-manager-uploads/event_banner/2023/07/Web_1600x1000ICC.png" height="250" border="0" alt="coastal-cleanup-day" align="left">USA - Registration is OPEN for the annual county-wide International Coastal Cleanup Miami-Dade to be held on Saturday, September 16th, 2023! Get ready to join millions of volunteers around the globe for the Ocean Conservancy’s 38th annual International Coastal Cleanup – the world’s LARGEST one-day volunteer effort for our oceans and waterways. Spearheaded globally by the Ocean Conservancy, VolunteerCleanup.org organizes Miami-Dade’s local participation in this annual event with 50+ simultaneous shoreline cleanups around the county and is made possible by the generous support of our presenting sponsors Covanta and Boucher Brothers, with additional support from Blackstone Charitable Foundation, The Brady Hunter Foundation, Benjamin & Gloria Joannou, Jr. Family Conservation Fund, City of Miami Beach, The Miami Foundation, Loud And Live, and Miami-Dade County RER-DERM. All volunteers will get a reusable tote bag with this year's animal theme, the Seahorse! We will have contests for those who find the strangest thing, and as always, community service hours will be provided.
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<strong>Rare long-distance dispersal events help maintain genetic structure of mangroves</strong><br>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="rare-mangrove-dispersal" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://earimediaprodweb.azurewebsites.net/Api/v1/Multimedia/83b9e46b-e142-426d-9c66-f48f5ec2bd40/Rendition/low-res/Content/Public" height="266" border="0" alt="rare-mangrove-dispersal" align="left">BRAZIL - A study combining genetic analysis and oceanographic simulations showed that a species of mangrove rarely disperses very far, so that North and South Brazil have two distinct populations. In Brazil’s North region, members of the population of red mangrove trees (Rhizophora mangle) do not often meet relatives from the South and vice-versa. However, occasional migrations via ocean currents between the two regions involving propagules, seeds adapted to seawater, enable populations to exchange genetic material and remain connected during their evolution. This is one of the conclusions of a study reported in the journal Molecular Ecology Resources by Brazilian and Japanese researchers. The former are affiliated with institutions supported by FAPESP. Mangrove forests form a unique wetland ecosystem, inhabiting the edge of land and sea, rooted and thriving in seawater. Mangroves play a vital role in coastal ecology and in sustaining and securing coastal communities. “We collected DNA samples from trees of the species all over Brazil. The genetic data matched simulations of ocean currents, which also showed that propagules aren’t carried very far from their parent mangroves. In sum, we have two practically isolated populations, one in the North/Northeast and the other in the South/Southeast,” said Gustavo Maruyama Mori, last author of the article and a professor at IB-CLP-UNESP.</div>
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<strong>The guardians of the mangrove forest in West Kalimantan</strong></div>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="guardians-of-the-mangroves" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://img.jakpost.net/c/2017/11/09/2017_11_09_35581_1510198446._large.jpg" height="268" border="0" alt="guardians-of-the-mangroves" align="left">INDONESIA - Imagine a world where 15 million people are safer from storms and flooding, where 4.1 million small-scale fishers have a secure livelihood, and where 25 billion fish and shellfish thrive. This isn’t a fantasy; it’s what could be achieved through the restoration of the world’s mangroves. Mangroves are nature’s shield against the wrath of rising seas and storm surges, especially for vulnerable coastal communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developing Countries (LDCs). They are not just barriers; they are nurseries for marine life, carbon sinks, and symbols of culture and tradition. In the coastal villages of West Kalimantan, the devastation of once-thriving mangrove forests, essential to the livelihood of countless local fishers, has ignited a movement for restoration and rejuvenation. This effort is not merely about rebuilding a marine life habitat but reconnecting with a part of the community’s identity. Spearheaded by community members and supported by local governments, national authorities, Planet Indonesia, and the Global Mangrove Alliance, among others, efforts are underway to reconstruct what was lost. By blending modern scientific knowledge with traditional insights, villagers are nurturing the mangroves as symbols of their cultural heritage.<br>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>UGANDA Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters! </strong><a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1269/uganda-stop-criminalizing-pipeline-protesters?mtu=578455638&t=16157">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
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<strong>Stop this total madness</strong> Stop the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world -- right through the heart of Africa!<br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Vh7CoPBLQa8"><img width="200" title="Restoring natural forests" style="width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4d7fdd07bd/Screen-Shot-2019-03-29-at-12.38.08-PM.jpg" height="120" border="0" alt="Restoring natural forests" align="none"></a><br>
<strong>Restoring The Natural Mangrove Forest</strong><br>
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<strong>Community Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Rufiji Delta</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>What is CBEMR?<br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>View MAP’s uploaded Videos at</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
<a href="https://malaysia.wetlands.org/publications/mangrove-guidebook-for-malaysia/">Click Here</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>SHARE MAP'S VISION</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUwYZ9CI0A">CLICK HERE</a> to watch short introductory video.<br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<div style="clear: both;"><img width="450" title="Once-again-being-a-Mother" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/styles/paragraph_full_desktop/article/2023-07/Once-again-being-a-Mother-%C2%A9Victor-Hugo-Luja-Molina-1280x857.webp?itok=KpRg7wDG" height="339" border="0" alt="Once-again-being-a-Mother" align="left">GLOBAL - Mangroves are among the most misunderstood ecosystems. The coastal forests are sometimes perceived as “dirty” or “dead areas”, wasted land that could be cleared in favour of sandy beaches or other developments. These myths about mangroves could not be farther from the truth. They are the only trees that thrive in salty waters and improve water quality by filtering out nutrients and sediments. They are also teeming with life: more than 1,500 plant and animal species depend on mangroves. This includes fish and birds who use the shallow waters beneath mangrove trees as nurseries. Research now indicates that mangroves are also critical for larger mammals, such as monkeys, sloths, tigers, hyenas and African wild dogs. But mangroves are threatened. Worldwide, a fifth of them have already disappeared. In some places around the world, such as the Irrawaddy Delta, over 80 per cent of mangrove forest has been lost since the 1970s! The main driver of mangrove loss is coastal development, when mangrove forests are cleared to make way for buildings and fish or shrimp farms. The plight of these vital ecosystems were in the spotlight on 26 July, World Mangrove Day. <strong>Mangrove Action Project</strong> is running its ninth annual <a href="https://www.photography.mangroveactionproject.org/">Mangrove Photography Awards</a>. The competition invites photographers of all levels around the world to contribute their images to celebrate the beauty and diversity of mangrove forests and inspire action to conserve them<br>
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<div><img width="400" title="Manglares" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/mexicodailypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Manglares3.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1" height="359" border="0" alt="Manglares" align="left">MEXICO - Senator from Yucatan Raúl Paz issued an urgent call to protect the mangrove forests in Yucatán as a fundamental measure to preserve the environment and ensure sustainable development in the region. The legislator expressed concern about the serious threat faced by the mangrove forests in different areas of the state, resulting from improper urban development and real estate projects along the Yucatán Peninsula. On the occasion of the International Day for the Protection of the Mangrove Ecosystem, he urged society to get involved and demand from the authorities their protection and conservation efforts. Paz Alonzo highlighted the importance of mangrove forests as regulators of water quality along the coasts, as well as providers of fishing zones, habitats for various plant and animal species, and essential for food security in the region. Furthermore, he emphasized their crucial role in mitigating the effects of climate change in places like Yucatán, an area exposed to hurricanes. According to official data, Mexico possesses 5 percent of the world’s total mangrove forests, ranking the country in 4th place among 125 countries and territories with this type of wetland. However, it is estimated that thousands of hectares of this ecosystem have been lost in the country in recent years.
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<div style="clear:both;"><img width="400" title="River-erosion-marks-are-visible-in-the-village" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2021/03/02122850/River-erosion-marks-are-visible-in-the-village.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="River-erosion-marks-are-visible-in-the-village" align="left">INDIA - People in the coastal part of Odisha’s Kendrapara district are to donate land for a mangrove plantation. Mangroves act as bio-shields against sea surge and cyclones. Odisha has 259 square kilometres of mangroves while Kendrapara is home to over 80% of the State’s mangrove forest. According to the Forest Survey of India-2021, Odisha has achieved growth of 8 sq km in mangrove forest area, the highest growth in the country. Over the years, the mangrove forests have been denuded by destructive shrimp culture along the coast. Mangrove forests were cleared for shrimp culture. “The department had called on people to take up plantation of mangroves on private land so that the entire coast is covered in mangrove vegetation. We have received an encouraging response. As of now 10 to 15 hectares of land have been donated by private individuals,” according to Sudharshan G. Yadav, Divisional Forest Officer of Rajnagar Wildlife Division. Mr. Yadav said about 25 people had donated their land. “We have been raising awareness on the importance of mangrove forests on the coast. People too have realized the utility and started working with the department,” said the DFO. Bijay Kabi, an environmentalist, said, “over the past 15 years, we have managed to impress upon residents of two villages to convert common land into mangroves. The result has been very encouraging. Due to the growth of mangrove forests, the grassland has also grown providing fodder to cows.”<br>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
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<div><strong>MAP’s 22nd Annual Mangrove Art Contest </strong><span style="color:#FF0000;"><strong>DEADLINE EXTENDED - YOUNG ARTISTS WANTED!</strong></span></div>
<div><a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/childrens-calendar/"><img width="400" title="map-childrens-calendar" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/a9db866d1f/8.56.50-PM.jpg" height="375" border="0" alt="map-childrens-calendar" align="left"></a>GLOBAL - Mangrove Action Project (MAP) invites children from around the world to participate in MAP’s 22nd annual Mangrove Art Contest. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art. The competition is open to all children worldwide, with selected winners published in the 2024 calendar to be distributed internationally to raise awareness of mangrove forest ecology. This colorful calendar has increased in popularity since its first publication in 2002. The 2024 calendar is our 22nd edition. We would like to invite children from your country to join in this fantastic creative and educational competition. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art.For any questions, contact Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, the international art competition coordinator at:<br>
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<div style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.photography.mangroveactionproject.org/"><img width="450" title="MAP-photo-contest-2022 2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 450px; height: 339px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/a9db866d1f/MAP-photo-contest-2022%202.jpg" height="339" border="0" alt="MAP-photo-contest-2022 2" align="left"></a>GLOBAL - Mangrove Action Project has launched their ninth annual Mangrove Photography Awards. The competition invites photographers of all levels around the world to contribute their images to highlight the beauty and fragility of mangrove ecosystems and inspire conservation action to protect them. Mangroves are one of the world’s most important ecosystems, and one of the most threatened. Today, less than half the world’s original mangrove forest cover remains and the “Mangrove Photography Awards has become a platform to intrigue people about the magnificent ecological role mangroves play in all of our lives", says ambassador Dhritiman Mukherjee. There are six categories that appeal to a range of interests and approaches, including a photojournalism multiple image category, allowing the photographer to tell important mangrove stories. This year’s competition will be judged by conservation photographers Octavio Aburto, Daisy Gilardini and Daniel Kordan. Last year’s competition received over 2000 entries from 68 countries. You can view the winners here. All entries will be celebrated as an online mangrove exhibition on 26th July, World Mangrove Day. The overall winner will be crowned the Mangrove Photographer of the Year, with winners announced for each of the categories, as well as this year’s Young Mangrove Photographer of the Year, in September 2023.</div>
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<div><img width="400" title="Mangroves-2-960x640" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2023/06/05064921/Mangroves-2-960x640.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="Mangroves-2-960x640" align="left">GLOBAL - Recently, countries all over the world have been struggling to meet their international climate commitments. Nature-based approaches, such as using the potential of mangroves, seagrasses, or salt marshes to sequester carbon provide a promising solution and could help nations significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. However, due to the complexity of calculating how much carbon wetlands and other coastal ecosystems can sequester and where to implement such strategies in order to maximize the co-benefits for the climate, economy, or flood risk reduction, major coastal countries, including the United States, have largely overlooked such “blue carbon strategies.” Now, a team of researchers led by Stanford University has quantified the value of Belize’s coastal mangrove forests in terms of how much carbon they can hold, what value they can add to fisheries and tourism, and what protection they can provide against coastal storms and other risks. Their findings could help chart a path to mitigate climate change, while also boosting the economy and making communities safer. “The U.S. has one of the largest coastlines in the world, and extensive wetlands,” said study lead author Katie Arkema, a senior Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who conducted this research during a fellowship at the Stanford Natural Capital Project. “This paper offers an approach we could use for setting evidence-based climate resilience and economic development goals.”<br>
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<div><img width="400" title="ecuador-farmed-shrimp" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="https://media.clientearth.org/cache/6/c/d/8/c/4/6cd8c4e6e7607e8d55b71f635c03e702373a11c3.jpeg" height="359" border="0" alt="ecuador-farmed-shrimp" align="left">ECUADOR - The European Union imports large quantities of farmed and wild shrimp from third countries to meet increasing demand. According to data from EUMOFA, 32% of the EU’s imports of frozen Penaeus shrimp in 2021 came from Ecuador, making it the bloc’s largest supplier. The main European importing countries were Spain (34%), France (20%) and Italy (14%). The free trade agreement that Ecuador signed with China on 3 January 2023, which covers shrimp, will likely boost Ecuador’s shrimp production in the coming years.Shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador has been identified as a main driver of mangrove destruction. According to the National Coordinating Corporation for the Defence of the Mangrove Ecosystem of Ecuador (CCONDEM, from its initials in Spanish), more than 70% of the mangrove ecosystem in Ecuador has been destroyed by shrimp ponds since the establishment of shrimp aquaculture farms. The destruction of mangroves – which have adapted to live and thrive in coastal and salty waters in tropical and subtropical regions – is affecting coastal and traditional communities and is undermining efforts to fight climate change and its impacts. Indeed, coastal and traditional communities have managed mangroves for centuries and live and depend on the resources they generate, including fish and seafood. But these forests are not only highly productive ecosystems which are key for food security; they also act as a buffer against weather events, help prevent erosion, and are efficient at storing carbon.
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="mangrove_fish" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/styles/image_map_desktop/article/focus_shutterstock_mangrove_fish_dpl.webp?h=7615e4aa&itok=u0Dl9cP5" height="266" border="0" alt="mangrove_fish" align="left">COSTA RICO - A 2015 UNESCO survey found that people living in 84% of biosphere reserves considered natural hazards to be an important issue and 89% of those surveyed reported their biosphere reserve as being exposed to natural hazards. UNESCO’s global network counted more than 600 biosphere reserves at the time. A follow-up survey two years later showed that 94% of biosphere reserves surveyed were exposed to natural hazards and had suffered significant damage. For example, the Savegre Biosphere Reserve is Costa Rica’s only coastal and marine biosphere reserve. It is exposed to tsunamis, storm surges and flooding from heavy rainfall. These natural hazards threaten not only the population but also a rich and very localised biodiversity that is sometimes endemic to the biosphere reserve. Since 2014, the National Tsunami Warning Centre of Costa Rica (SINAMOT) has recorded over 350 offshore tremors with the potential to generate a tsunami, such as underwater landslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. In addition, Savegre Biosphere Reserve was severely affected by flooding in 2022. Climate-related hazards like flooding are expected to become more frequent and intense in the years to come. Although mangrove forests along the coast can bolster the population’s resilience to both geological and climate-related hazards by breaking the strength of incoming waves, these have become fragmented in Savegre Biosphere Reserve. To address this situation, UNESCO experts worked with national and local emergency agencies, local government officials, Costa Rican experts and at-risk populations from 2021 to 2022 to strengthen the resilience of coastal communities by developing an integrated approach to preparedness for coastal hazards.</div>
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A visit to this wild place, however, inspires not only awe at its primordial might, but also awareness of its fragility. Like the tides that are so dramatic here that about a third of the land disappears and reappears every day, or the islands of silt that build up over months only to be washed away in a flood, the Sundarbans evokes the feeling that it could at any minute just slip away. Nowhere is this impression of sliding between states as strong as at the very end of the delta, where the land gives way to the open sea.<br>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>UGANDA Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters! </strong><a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1269/uganda-stop-criminalizing-pipeline-protesters?mtu=578455638&t=16157">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
Urge SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration to do more to protect Boca Chica and its wildlife. <a href="https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/4XMDa1Nlok6L-mn0El8q4w2?sourceid=1008843&utm_source=eeo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eeo1191&contactdata=StOLwb6u%2Bhl3ePjjqmSFkLmCDyaeGnXj7WqWjGQVycPdAeqkYOe4fUp0LlPU%2BXxS5tCiOwQWsPPQP0OD28TdVoSfsvYeafY6WCrqKcKeuXcx12%2BoEsX%2FziTYZTmSNKuTdzoRj10yOoT1cmW%2FnGwvxA%3D%3D&emci=1f626172-eae9-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=eab2e6b8-c7ea-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&ceid=2323674">SIGN THE PETITION</a><br>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!</strong> <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1261/drc-do-not-sacrifice-congos-rainforests-to-the-oil-industry?mtu=558889476&t=13343">TAKE ACTION</a><br>
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<strong>TAKE MAP SURVEY</strong> Please see the <a href="https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/T1BjKW">survey questionnaire</a> we at MAP put together to discover where the shrimp industry is still having major adverse effects on mangroves and local communities.<br>
<a href="https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/T1BjKW">TAKE THE SURVEY</a><br>
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<strong>Stop this total madness</strong> Stop the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world -- right through the heart of Africa!<br>
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/total_africa_oil_pipeline_2022_11/?kPSDMsb">CLICK HERE</a></span></font></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>13 Year old Linda Li "Mangrove Adventure" from Kid Dream Art School</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Vh7CoPBLQa8"><img width="200" title="Restoring natural forests" style="width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4d7fdd07bd/Screen-Shot-2019-03-29-at-12.38.08-PM.jpg" height="120" border="0" alt="Restoring natural forests" align="none"></a><br>
<strong>Restoring The Natural Mangrove Forest</strong><br>
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<strong>Community Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Rufiji Delta</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></font></p>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A"><img width="200" title="Mangrove-education" style="width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DCJW8455-e1556272236667-uai-1012x675.jpg" height="133" border="0" alt="Mangrove-education" align="none"></a><br>
Our short presentation will give you a better understanding of the issues we are working to solve.<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A">WATCH PRESENTATION</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>What is CBEMR?<br>
Download MAP's 2 page CBEMR Information Sheet<br>
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<a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CBEMR-Infosheet-AUG-2019.pdf">CLICK HERE</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>View MAP’s uploaded Videos at</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVJbUHGAQg">WATCH VIDEO</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
<a href="https://malaysia.wetlands.org/publications/mangrove-guidebook-for-malaysia/">Click Here</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>SHARE MAP'S VISION</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUwYZ9CI0A">CLICK HERE</a> to watch short introductory video.<br>
Together we can work "at the roots of the sea".</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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Marvellous Mangroves – A Curriculum-Based Teachers Guide.</font></a></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">*Articles in this newsletter may mention practices being used and/or show exagerated results being claimed without proof. Stories are presented here in effort to show mangrove related activity around the world and do not necessarily reflect Mangrove Action Project's views or mangrove restoration best-practices.</span></p>
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<div style="clear:both;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><a href="https://www.photography.mangroveactionproject.org/"><img width="450" title="MAP-photo-contest-2022 2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 450px; height: 339px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/a9db866d1f/MAP-photo-contest-2022%202.jpg" height="271" border="0" alt="MAP-photo-contest-2022 2" align="left"></a><span style="display: none;"> </span>GLOBAL - Mangrove Action Project has launched their ninth annual Mangrove Photography Awards. The competition invites photographers of all levels around the world to contribute their images to highlight the beauty and fragility of mangrove ecosystems and inspire conservation action to protect them. Mangroves are one of the world’s most important ecosystems, and one of the most threatened. Today, less than half the world’s original mangrove forest cover remains and the “Mangrove Photography Awards has become a platform to intrigue people about the magnificent ecological role mangroves play in all of our lives", says ambassador Dhritiman Mukherjee. There are six categories that appeal to a range of interests and approaches, including a photojournalism multiple image category, allowing the photographer to tell important mangrove stories. This year’s competition will be judged by conservation photographers Octavio Aburto, Daisy Gilardini and Daniel Kordan. Last year’s competition received over 2000 entries from 68 countries. You can view the winners here. All entries will be celebrated as an online mangrove exhibition on 26th July, World Mangrove Day. The overall winner will be crowned the Mangrove Photographer of the Year, with winners announced for each of the categories, as well as this year’s Young Mangrove Photographer of the Year, in September 2023.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><span style="display: none;"> </span><a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/childrens-calendar/"><img width="400" title="map-childrens-calendar" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/a9db866d1f/8.56.50-PM.jpg" height="375" border="0" alt="map-childrens-calendar" align="left"></a><span style="display: none;"> </span>GLOBAL - Mangrove Action Project (MAP) invites children from around the world to participate in MAP’s 22nd annual Mangrove Art Contest. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art. The competition is open to all children worldwide, with selected winners published in the 2024 calendar to be distributed internationally to raise awareness of mangrove forest ecology. This colorful calendar has increased in popularity since its first publication in 2002. The 2024 calendar is our 22nd edition. We would like to invite children from your country to join in this fantastic creative and educational competition. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art.For any questions, contact Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, the international art competition coordinator at:<br>
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<div><strong>Restoring mangroves could help countries meet their climate goals</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="Mangroves-2-960x640" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2023/06/05064921/Mangroves-2-960x640.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="Mangroves-2-960x640" align="left">GLOBAL - Recently, countries all over the world have been struggling to meet their international climate commitments. Nature-based approaches, such as using the potential of mangroves, seagrasses, or salt marshes to sequester carbon provide a promising solution and could help nations significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. However, due to the complexity of calculating how much carbon wetlands and other coastal ecosystems can sequester and where to implement such strategies in order to maximize the co-benefits for the climate, economy, or flood risk reduction, major coastal countries, including the United States, have largely overlooked such “blue carbon strategies.” Now, a team of researchers led by Stanford University has quantified the value of Belize’s coastal mangrove forests in terms of how much carbon they can hold, what value they can add to fisheries and tourism, and what protection they can provide against coastal storms and other risks. Their findings could help chart a path to mitigate climate change, while also boosting the economy and making communities safer. “The U.S. has one of the largest coastlines in the world, and extensive wetlands,” said study lead author Katie Arkema, a senior Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who conducted this research during a fellowship at the Stanford Natural Capital Project. “This paper offers an approach we could use for setting evidence-based climate resilience and economic development goals.”<br>
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<div><img width="400" title="adapting-to-climate" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Story-Cover-scaled.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="adapting-to-climate" align="left">JAMAICA - Jamaica’s critical mangrove forests are facing a range of threats, caused or exacerbated by climate change. Mangroves are essential for tropical countries like Jamaica, but they can provide the same security in any place they grow. They are trees with dense, interwoven root systems that grow along warmer coastal regions in slow-moving water. They protect coastlines from tidal waves and flooding and are natural habitats for a variety of marine life. Besides acting as a natural buffer and habitat protection for multiple ecosystems, mangroves are becoming a key part of the global climate change conversation because of their ability to sequester carbon. Roughly 12 minutes out of Jamaica’s Port Antonio is a small community called Alligator Head. As with most communities along Jamaica’s north coast, fishing is an essential tradition that has been passed down for generations; it’s a common stream of income for both men and women. But things have changed—the climate being one of them. In recent decades, Jamaica has faced issues such as coastal erosion, sea surface temperature rise, sea level rise, reef disease, and fish stock decline. The result: fewer fish, receding beaches, and a general decline in the fishing profession as well as other coastal livelihoods. People who years ago could earn a living fishing for a few hours on the coast, now must go further and deeper into the ocean to catch fish. Many have left the profession altogether. But in 2016, a group of marine scientists and conservation managers collaborated with the community of Alligator Head to establish the East Portland Fishing Sanctuary, with the goal of restoring the island’s coast.
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="mangrove-trimming" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://media.yourobserver.com/img/photos/2023/06/27/DSC06572_7gLD1Lo_t1100.JPG?31a214c4405663fd4bc7e33e8c8cedcc07d61559" height="225" border="0" alt="mangrove-trimming" align="left">USA - An investigation from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection was recently opened in response to people concerned with mangrove trimming conducted two years ago at the Longboat Key Club. But the regulations and permitting for mangrove trimming may be more complicated than simple right or wrong. Mangroves are important hubs of biodiversity for estuaries like Sarasota Bay, so how much and when mangroves can be altered is a complex conversation between multiple stakeholders. “Mangroves have been a big issue for us because we’re seeing a lot of illegal trimming going on, and we don’t see much enforcement,” said Rusty Chinnis, board chair of Suncoast Waterkeeper, a nonprofit that strives to protect Florida’s environment through advocacy and enforcement. “The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is currently investigating reports of unauthorized mangrove alteration at the Longboat Key Club,” DEP Press Secretary Brian Miller said. “DEP inspectors have been on-site to perform a preliminary inspection and are in the process of finalizing their inspection report.”<br>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="Krishna-showing-his-crabs" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2023/06/12101008/Krishna-showing-his-crabs-min-1200x800.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="Krishna-showing-his-crabs" align="left">INDIA - From 2016 to 2019, a kilometre-long portion of the Jambusar coastline became pilot to an experiment that was a little different from mangrove regeneration projects across India. The idea was to have a 50-metres wall of mangroves on the seaside backed by 50 metres of salt-resistant Salvadora plant (locally known as piludi), 50 metres of fodder crop (unth morad in Gujarati) and then aromatic herbs and fruit trees towards the village side, together forming a 180-metres-wide natural wall between the sea and arable land. The Vikas Centre for Development, an Ahmedabad-based NGO, along with their technical arm, Saline Area Vitalisation Enterprise Limited (SAVE) undertook the project in Tankari village with funding from the Adani Foundation. Rajesh Shah, Managing Director, SAVE, says bioshields, as this wall is called, besides controlling erosion, support in increasing the fish catch and fodder production, while also improving agricultural production by blocking saline winds. “Earlier, cyclones only affected the eastern coast of India. But lately, the frequency of cyclones in the Arabian Sea has gone up. There is a critical need to implement adaptation projects to protect the livelihoods and ecological assets of vulnerable communities on the coast. Bioshields serve this purpose,” said Shah. In March this year, Ganpat Makwana from Tankari harvested 2800 kg of wheat from his two-acre plot that is three km from the sea. Makwana, who earned Rs. 40,000 from the wheat and fodder sale, last harvested wheat ten years ago as the saline winds would not let anything grow.</div>
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WATCH: Can protecting mangroves save the planet?</strong></div>
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<div>GLOBAL - “Mangroves are so important, because they’re magic” — Mangrove swamps shield coastlines from erosion, protect the land from storm surges, and store up to 5x more carbon than other forests. But are we doing enough to protect them? Alejandro Alba traveled to Florida to find out if mangroves can save the planet.</div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>UGANDA Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters! </strong><a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1269/uganda-stop-criminalizing-pipeline-protesters?mtu=578455638&t=16157">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="color:#FF0000;">Petition – Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!</span></span></h3>
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<div style="clear:both;"><img width="450" title="chiampas-mangrove" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 450px; height: 271px;" src="https://www.laprensalatina.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ef5d89d176da67ce47d30caaac161f542ca43ad8w-780x470.jpg" height="271" border="0" alt="chiampas-mangrove" align="left">EL SALVADOR - A group of 18 young men and women are employing a technique known as “chinampas” to restore a mangrove forest that lines the shores of the Jiquilisco Bay Biosphere Reserve, the largest saltwater wetland ecosystem in El Salvador and all of Central America. The work has involved installing more than 300 chinampas, or floating islands, which are made from bamboo stakes and biodegradable vegetable material and are a technique first used centuries ago by the Aztecs to grow crops on shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico. Mangrove forests in El Salvador are located all along the country’s Pacific coastal region, among the most important of which are those of La Union Bay, Jiquilisco Bay (both in the eastern zone), the Jaltepeque wetland complex (central zone) and the Barra de Santiago wetland (western zone). According to the Environment Ministry, 60 percent of El Salvador’s mangrove forest cover was lost between 1950 and 2013, falling from 100,000 hectares (386 square miles) to 40,000 hectares. That reduction was the result of pollution, deforestation, agricultural expansion, aquaculture projects and urban and tourist development. Jiquilisco Bay was declared a Ramsar site (a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention) in October 2005. That biosphere reserve covers an area of more than 63,000 hectares and contains the largest mangrove estuary in El Salvador, as well as numerous bays, canals, beaches, islands, woodlands and a complex of freshwater lagoons.</div>
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<strong>Getting to the root of mangrove RNA isolation</strong><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="375" title="mangrove" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 375px; height: 161px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/d8cf30bc5c/MangroveRNA.jpg" height="161" border="0" alt="mangrove" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>GLOBAL - The secondary metabolite content in mangrove roots can interfere with RNA extraction, making it unsuitable for downstream applications. In response, scientists from the Central University of Kerala (India) recently published an optimized method for isolating high-quality RNA from mangrove root tissue by modifying an existing RNA-isolation protocol. Mangroves are a staple of shorelines across the globe and provide important environmental services to both humans and the natural environment, including the prevention of coastal erosion, sequestering carbon dioxide, and acting as habitats for a wide variety of species. Another iconic feature of mangroves is their ability to thrive in harsh intertidal zones. As mangrove forests are in decline worldwide, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; Gland, Switzerland) performed the first global assessment of mangroves’ conservation status, finding that one in six species is under threat of extinction. Understanding their adaptive mechanisms to saline coastal environments and differences in intra-species tolerance to intertidal environments under stress will help conservation planning. Transcriptomic data can be used to help understand the pathways related to stress tolerance by providing us with the gene-expression patterns of plants under stress</div>
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<strong>Africa Needs to Monetize Its Trees to Help World Reach Net Zero</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="Onemangroveatatime" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://news-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Onemangroveatatime.jpg" height="225" border="0" alt="Onemangroveatatime" align="left">USA - In May of 2019, Adam Fishman co-founded Onora, a nonprofit startup company that aims to heal our planet through innovative projects that inspire change. His mission is to lead with love and spread positivity to empower people to take action. Adam seeks to allow everyone to appreciate the progress that we have made, as opposed to focusing solely on our problems. This gratitude-based learning encourages us to abandon the idea that climate change is an irreversible issue. By combatting the mental struggle that comes with preventing global warming, Adam hopes to spread Onora’s positive ripple effects across the globe. His passion for protecting the environment by leading with love is reflected in the company, which has made incredible strides through accessible programs and impressive partnerships. Onora has undertaken a variety of projects, including an Impact Fellowship for high school students, a survey to calculate individual carbon footprints and a partnership with Eden Reforestation to plant mangrove trees.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil?mtu=579275536&t=16380">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>UGANDA Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters! </strong><a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1269/uganda-stop-criminalizing-pipeline-protesters?mtu=578455638&t=16157">SIGN THE PETITION</a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<strong>From mangroves to fjords, coastal ecosystems can take up or emit greenhouse gases. But globally, they're a vital sink</strong><br>
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<strong>The critical role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="oryx" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 250px; height: 327px;" src="https://www.forestpeoples.org/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/images/Screenshot%202023-05-22%20111039.png?itok=sqmI_pzJ" height="223" border="0" alt="oryx" align="left">KENYA - Research has shown that Indigenous peoples and local communities can and often do play a critical role in conserving biodiversity, and that their territories contain high levels of biodiversity. However, many Indigenous peoples are facing threats to their land rights, including land grabbing and forced evictions, for development projects, extractive industries or even for conservation initiatives. “As Indigenous Peoples, we have been custodians of our lands, territories and waters for millennia and have deep interaction with the ecosystems where we live. Evidence shows our lands are among the most biodiverse on the planet,” said Lakpa Nuri Sherpa, Indigenous leader from Nepal. For example, a recent IPBES sustainability report released in 2022, found that policies supporting secure tenure rights for indigenous peoples, and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests, as well as poverty alleviation, create enabling conditions for sustainable use of wild species. Effective global biodiversity and conservation policy requires a human rights-based approach<br>
The importance of the contributions and leadership of indigenous peoples and local communities in achieving biodiversity goals was also emphasized by Lucy Mulenkei, an Indigenous leader from Kenya, ahead of the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework by the Convention on Biological Diversity in December 2022.<br>
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<strong>New Coastal Lagoon Education Guide Launched</strong><strong> </strong><br>
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at a Cayman teachers’ workshop on 27 March. Some 20 teachers from Edna Moyle and Theoline L McCoy primary schools attended the workshop as part of their March Professional Development (PD) day. Held at the National Trust’s Clubhouse, the workshop featured the 200-page guide which covers the interrelated coastal lagoon ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass and reefs, several hands-on activities, and an introduction to the CLE’s new website. The website carries an extensive inventory of teaching resources ranging from the CLE Guide itself, the original Marvellous Mangroves guide and PowerPoints to background resources including in-depth studies and a series of specially made “how to” videos with simple instructions on carrying out activities. “The CLE website - https://www.coastallagoon.org - enhances the curriculum and teaching efficacy and will monitor the children’s uptake of the material. The site is constantly being updated,” explains MEP executive director, Martin Keeley. “Plans are underway to also add monitoring and evaluation links of the educational curriculum.</div>
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<strong>Advancing Understanding of Mangrove Range Dynamics in the Southeastern USA</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="maps of mangrove expansion" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs12237-023-01209-7/MediaObjects/12237_2023_1209_Fig2_HTML.png" height="267" border="0" alt="maps of mangrove expansion" align="left">USA - Climate change is altering species’ range limits and transforming ecosystems. For example, warming temperatures are leading to the range expansion of tropical, cold-sensitive species at the expense of their cold-tolerant counterparts. In some temperate and subtropical coastal wetlands, warming winters are enabling mangrove forest encroachment into salt marsh, which is a major regime shift that has significant ecological and societal ramifications. Here, we synthesized existing data and expert knowledge to assess the distribution of mangroves near rapidly changing range limits in the southeastern USA. We used expert elicitation to identify data limitations and highlight knowledge gaps for advancing understanding of past, current, and future range dynamics. Mangroves near poleward range limits are often shorter, wider, and more shrublike compared to their tropical counterparts that grow as tall forests in freeze-free, resource-rich environments.
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="mangrove-cuckoo" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 417px;" src="https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/32/74/21/23839833/3/1200x0.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="mangrove-cuckoo" align="left">USA - Fort Worth birder Parker Allie created huge excitement in the birding community with his sighting of the first Mangrove Cuckoo in the Galveston area since 1982. Galveston Island posted about the "extremely rare" sighting that occurred over the weekend on Saturday, May 13. The Mangrove Cuckoo is among the most secretive and poorly known North American birds, according to the American Bird Conservancy. Within the United States, this tropical bird can be found only in dense mangroves along the southern coasts of Florida. Outside of its small range in Florida, the Mangrove Cuckoo is widespread from northern Mexico south through the West Indies and Central America to South America. The birds rarely stray from Mexico north into Texas and the Gulf Coast. "This cuckoo went coo-coo making a rare appearance in Texas," Texas Parks and Wildlife posted on Facebook. The Great Texas Birding Classic, the biggest and longest birdwatching tournament in the United States, posted about the sighting as well. The organization said it was a great way to end the tournament and just in time for World Migratory Bird Day, which was on May 13. Although there is scant information on Mangrove Cuckoo population trends, the species appears to be declining in the United States, according to the American Bird Conservancy. The conservancy estimates a global breeding population of 200,000. Of these, about 40% are found in Mexico.<br>
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<strong>Restoring The Natural Mangrove Forest</strong><br>
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<strong>Community Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Rufiji Delta</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A">Want to learn more about mangroves?</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A"><img width="200" title="Mangrove-education" style="width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DCJW8455-e1556272236667-uai-1012x675.jpg" height="133" border="0" alt="Mangrove-education" align="none"></a><br>
Our short presentation will give you a better understanding of the issues we are working to solve.<br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>What is CBEMR?<br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
<a href="https://malaysia.wetlands.org/publications/mangrove-guidebook-for-malaysia/">Click Here</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<div style="clear:both;"><strong>High-Quality, Nature-Based Solutions in Indonesia: </strong><strong>Allying with Communities, Restoring Ecosystems</strong><br>
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<div style="clear:both;"><img width="400" title="indonesia" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/forestsnews.cifor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/8452259041_1969339d53_z.jpg?resize=640%2C415&ssl=1" height="259" border="0" alt="indonesia" align="left">INDONESIA - When implemented thoughtfully, nature-based climate-action projects support biodiversity and connect communities, governments and other organizations to make long-lasting, impactful changes that no one group could do alone.ClimeCo, a sustainability solutions provider and project developer, is currently funding a locally led mangrove-reforestation project in Indonesia in close partnership with YAKOPI (Yayasan Konservasi Persisir Indonesia) — an Indonesia-based non-governmental organization responsible for planting and community engagement, and PUR Projet — an on-the-ground project developer providing critical oversight and guidance. The YAKOPI mangrove project encompasses 196 villages and approximately 1,100 hectares in the Aceh and North Sumatra regions, providing investment in local socio-economic development — including gender-equitable employment and ecotourism. Additionally, it promotes the implementation of sustainable, locally run pilot fisheries called silvofisheries — a form of sustainable aquaculture that integrates planting, maintenance and protection of mangrove forests in aquaculture ponds. ClimeCo relies heavily on its partners’ local knowledge to identify best practices and to implement proper planting techniques, such as recognizing and utilizing healthy and vigorous native saplings known as propagules.</div>
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<strong>Assessing the use of West African Mangrove oyster as a bioindicator of aquatic environment in Densu Estuary economic viability</strong><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="Oyster-business" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://newsghana.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oyster-business.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="Oyster-business" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>GHANA - Invisible fisheries such as oysters though minimal and less harvested in comparison to fishes, are of nutritional, medicinal and economic value. Oysters are a source of nutrients in the form of protein to many people in West Africa including Ghana. The shells provide calcium and are used in the preparation of poultry and livestock feeds. In addition, the shells serve as an ingredient in paint preparations, a rough base for footpaths, and cement for building and raw material for pharmaceutical industries. Ecologically, sessile organisms like oysters are important in the aquatic food chain. Oysters are filter feeders and while they feed on plankton, they help improve on water quality. The settling behavior of oyster spats with time, form reefs which provide structured habitat in estuaries and lagoons for many fish species and crabs. In Ghana, the West African Mangrove Oyster (WAMO) is widely distributed occurring in mangroves, sediments and compact substrates of coastal water bodies. In the country, oyster populations in estuaries and lagoons are declining. As at 1996, about nine (9) out of the 41 wetland ecosystems lost their oyster populations according to research</div>
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<strong>Stop criminalizing pipeline protesters!</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="uganda-pipeline" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/photos/article/wide/xl/x2/img-5504.jpg" height="223" border="0" alt="uganda-pipeline" align="left">UGANDA - Authorities in Uganda are cracking down on critics of fossil fuel projects. Nine university students were arrested and are awaiting trial in Kampala for protesting against the EACOP pipeline. The threat of legal action is nerve-wracking and potentially costly for the accused. According to the activists, the prosecutor’s intention is to silence critics. The proposed $3.5-billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), would ship crude oil from Lake Albert in Uganda to global markets through a port on Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast. Development groups have raised alarm about the impacts on the climate - saying the pipeline will generate 34 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually - and on communities, as an estimated 14,000 households are at risk of losing their land. But climate campaigners are increasingly being targeted and stifled under the Public Management Order Act and legislation governing NGOs, said Dickens Kamugisha, chief executive of the Kampala-based Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO). Let the students know that they are not alone, and that the international community stands behind them.<br>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">AMERICAS</h3>
<strong>Manual for the ecological restoration of mangroves in the Mesoamerican Reef System and the Wider Caribbean</strong><strong> </strong><br>
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<img width="400" title="mangrove-trees" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://www.thegef.org/sites/default/files/shutterstock_618408794.jpg" height="225" border="0" alt="mangrove-trees" align="left">MESOAMERICA - Mangroves in the Mesoamerican Reef Region (MAR) and the Wider Caribbean are the economic foundation of over 134 million people living in the coastal regions. Mangroves provide protection against floods and buffer against storms and hurricanes, to which the region is highly vulnerable. Additionally, due to their close relationship with other ecosystems, such as coral reefs and seagrasses, mangroves and the ecosystem services they provide are the conservation pillars of coastal ecosystems. Among these services, the storage potential of blue carbon is one of the most essential services in mitigating the effects of climate change, in addition to supporting important tourism and fisheries industries. However, every year the extent of mangroves continues to decline due to the impacts of climate change, change in land use, and the overexploitation of resources. This manual contributes to strengthening local, national, and regional capacities for the ecological restoration of mangroves and the ecosystem services they provide in the MAR and the Wider Caribbean region. Within the framework of the Cartagena Convention and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, ecological restoration (ER) of mangroves is considered a Nature-based Solution (NbS) that allows addressing the effects of climate change. The objective of the manual is to guide and strengthen local and regional capacities of all those (individuals, groups, organizations) interested in recovering mangrove ecosystems in the Mesoamerican Reef Region (MAR) and the Wider Caribbean.</div>
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<strong>Dirty shrimp farms are punching a huge hole in the environment. A.I. could cut it in half</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="Shrimp-close-up-produced-with-biofloc-in-Shrimpbox.jpg?w=1440&q=75" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Shrimp-close-up-produced-with-biofloc-in-Shrimpbox.jpg?w=1440&q=75" height="267" border="0" alt="Shrimp-close-up-produced-with-biofloc-in-Shrimpbox.jpg?w=1440&q=75" align="left">USA - Inside a humid warehouse in suburban Indianapolis, a company called Atarraya is using large metal containers and the latest technology to grow shrimp hundreds of miles from the ocean. At one end of the hangar-like building sit blue metal boxes that look similar to shipping containers. But instead of holding cargo for transport, they’re designed to grow Pacific whiteleg shrimp anywhere in the world, overseen by employees who don’t require specialized training. “The software does all the heavy lifting,” Daniel Russek, CEO of Mexico City– and Indianapolis-based Atarraya, tells Fortune Magazine during a tour of the company’s newly launched U.S. operation, which includes a small office building and a warehouse that it plans to fill with 20 of the micro shrimp farms. The software Russek refers to is cloud-based artificial intelligence that monitors water quality, regulates temperature and oxygenation, and feeds the shrimp. For Russek, the concept is a bet that Atarraya will be able not only to sell locally grown seafood itself but also to franchise its Shrimpbox technology to seafood distributors or farmers, whether they have aquaculture experience or not. When paired with renewable energy, this technology-powered, distributed seafood model could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially as global demand for seafood rises. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that global per capita consumption of wild-caught and farmed aquatic animals will increase to 47 pounds annually in 2030 from 45 pounds in 2020, a year when global aquaculture production hit a record of 122.6 million metric tons.
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://fortune.com/2022/10/24/dirty-shrimp-farms-are-punching-a-huge-hole-in-the-environment-a-i-could-cut-it-in-half/"><img width="100" title="Readmore" style="width:100px;height:43px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/ea2198f87a/Readmore.jpg" height="43" border="0" alt="Readmore" align="middle"></a></div>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="mangrove-museum" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://static.fundrazr.com/story/1614dc38817f406793b2d07942c2f25b.jpg?cb=1682019841261" height="300" border="0" alt="mangrove-museum" align="left"> SRI LANKA - Thanks to several major donors, our crowdfunding campaign to save Sri Lanka's first-of-its-kind mangrove museum has almost reached its goal. Now it's up to supporters like you to get us over the finish line and ensure a bright future for this important, but struggling institution. Douglas Thesera has worked tirelessly to protect mangroves in Sri Lanka for decades, and today he serves as the director of the museum. He has a message of gratitude for our generous donors, who are helping him and his team continue their urgently needed work. For five years, Seacology worked with conservation leaders and coastal communities across Sri Lanka to protect and restore the island nation’s mangroves. Opened in 2016 in a celebration attended by then-president Maithripala Sirisena and other dignitaries, the Lanka Mangrove Museum serves as a repository of knowledge about the country’s threatened coastal wetlands, and is a top destination in the world for anyone who wants to learn about them. Nestled alongside a lagoon and surrounded by mangroves, the large facility is home to engaging displays about the 23 species of mangrove trees found in Sri Lanka and the incredible array of wildlife they support. Leading scientists visit the facility, and in past years it was one of the most popular destinations for school groups from across the country. It was even recognized by the national postal service with a commemorative stamp.<br>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong>Mekong Delta shrimp farmers’ enthusiasm for working with mangroves is waning</strong><br>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="Vietnam-farmers-harvest-shrimp-from-drained-pond_ThanhNguyen_TheThirdPole" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://www.thethirdpole.net/content/uploads/2023/05/20230322_Vietnam-farmers-harvest-shrimp-from-drained-pond_ThanhNguyen_TheThirdPole.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="Vietnam-farmers-harvest-shrimp-from-drained-pond_ThanhNguyen_TheThirdPole" align="left">IETNAM - Leaving space for mangroves among the shrimp farms of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta has been a win-win for aquaculture and the environment, but farmers say the economic benefits of the model are slowing. Thac is signed up to an organic programme with a major seafood producer, under which farmers are not allowed to add fertiliser, antibiotics, growth promoters or other chemicals to the water. “Our shrimp, crabs, fish and our mangroves rely 100% on the environment,” he says. On paper, it’s a win-win: mangroves are saved, and farmers’ incomes are boosted. The rate of mangrove loss due to aquaculture in the Mekong Delta has fallen, from 2,440 hectares a year between 1973 and 1990 to 1,490 hectares a year between 2010 and 2020. But a closer look at this mangrove stronghold in the world’s third–largest delta reveals a more complex picture. Despite the benefits of the integrated shrimp-mangrove model, tension remains between the needs of the forest and the aquaculture industry – and this is being aggravated by both climate change and the effects of upstream dams. Most of the land of the Mekong Delta owes its existence to mangroves. “It’s a magical tree that can digest salty water and dirty air and thrive,” says Vo Quoc Tuan, a mangrove specialist at Can Tho University. “Mangroves have been and are still being underappreciated, not just by farmers but also the general public and… the government.”</div>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Recent meeting of COP ReSembid Biodiversity program featured MAP Education Director Martin Keely presenting the Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#B22222;">ACTION ALERTS</span><br>
<strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
Urge SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration to do more to protect Boca Chica and its wildlife. <a href="https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/4XMDa1Nlok6L-mn0El8q4w2?sourceid=1008843&utm_source=eeo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eeo1191&contactdata=StOLwb6u%2Bhl3ePjjqmSFkLmCDyaeGnXj7WqWjGQVycPdAeqkYOe4fUp0LlPU%2BXxS5tCiOwQWsPPQP0OD28TdVoSfsvYeafY6WCrqKcKeuXcx12%2BoEsX%2FziTYZTmSNKuTdzoRj10yOoT1cmW%2FnGwvxA%3D%3D&emci=1f626172-eae9-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=eab2e6b8-c7ea-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&ceid=2323674">SIGN THE PETITION</a><br>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!</strong> <a href="https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1261/drc-do-not-sacrifice-congos-rainforests-to-the-oil-industry?mtu=558889476&t=13343">TAKE ACTION</a><br>
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<strong>TAKE MAP SURVEY</strong> Please see the <a href="https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/T1BjKW">survey questionnaire</a> we at MAP put together to discover where the shrimp industry is still having major adverse effects on mangroves and local communities.<br>
<a href="https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/T1BjKW">TAKE THE SURVEY</a><br>
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<strong>Stop this total madness</strong> Stop the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world -- right through the heart of Africa!<br>
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/total_africa_oil_pipeline_2022_11/?kPSDMsb">CLICK HERE</a></span></font></h2>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>13 Year old Linda Li "Mangrove Adventure" from Kid Dream Art School</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Vh7CoPBLQa8"><img width="200" title="Restoring natural forests" style="width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4d7fdd07bd/Screen-Shot-2019-03-29-at-12.38.08-PM.jpg" height="120" border="0" alt="Restoring natural forests" align="none"></a><br>
<strong>Restoring The Natural Mangrove Forest</strong><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/Vh7CoPBLQa8">Watch movie</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be"><img width="200" title="Rufiji-Delta" style="width: 200px; height: 113px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/9ab9975f5c/Rufiji-Delta.jpg" height="113" border="0" alt="Rufiji-Delta" align="none"></a><br>
<strong>Community Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Rufiji Delta</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2EBQQkurY&feature=youtu.be">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">MANGROVE ISSUES </span></strong></p>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A">Want to learn more about mangroves?</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A"><img width="200" title="Mangrove-education" style="width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DCJW8455-e1556272236667-uai-1012x675.jpg" height="133" border="0" alt="Mangrove-education" align="none"></a><br>
Our short presentation will give you a better understanding of the issues we are working to solve.<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/UcUwYZ9CI0A">WATCH PRESENTATION</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>What is CBEMR?<br>
Download MAP's 2 page CBEMR Information Sheet<br>
containing links to all MAP's CBEMR resources </strong><br>
<a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CBEMR-Infosheet-AUG-2019.pdf">CLICK HERE</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>View MAP’s uploaded Videos at</strong><br>
<a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/portfolio-video/">MAP Video Gallery</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVJbUHGAQg">WATCH VIDEO</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
<a href="https://malaysia.wetlands.org/publications/mangrove-guidebook-for-malaysia/">Click Here</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>SHARE MAP'S VISION</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUwYZ9CI0A">CLICK HERE</a> to watch short introductory video.<br>
Together we can work "at the roots of the sea".</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA"><img width="200" title="EPIC-Film 2" style="width: 200px; height: 128px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4912923153/EPIC-Film%202.jpg" height="128" border="0" alt="EPIC-Film 2" align="none"></a></span></font><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-size: 13.3333px;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq1D0h4YFQE&feature=player_embedded"><font color="#000000"><img width="200" title="MAP%20Curriculum%20Video" style="width: 200px; height: 108px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/9bb092ee09/MAP%20Curriculum%20Video.jpg" height="108" border="0" alt="MAP%20Curriculum%20Video" align="none"><br>
Marvellous Mangroves – A Curriculum-Based Teachers Guide.</font></a></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">*Articles in this newsletter may mention practices being used and/or show exagerated results being claimed without proof. Stories are presented here in effort to show mangrove related activity around the world and do not necessarily reflect Mangrove Action Project's views or mangrove restoration best-practices.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://www.scseagrant.org/blue-carbon-law-symposium/">Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium May 17-18, 2023 in Athens, GA</a></strong></h3>
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<div style="clear:both;"><strong>Decades of Mangrove Forest Change: What does it mean for nature, people and the climate?</strong><br>
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<div style="clear:both;"><img width="400" title="mangrove-forest-changes" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://cdn.unenvironment.org/styles/topics_content_promo/s3/2021-09/gorilla_ranger_covid_mask_min2%281%29.jpg" height="224" border="0" alt="mangrove-forest-changes" align="left">GLOBAL - Decades of Mangrove Forest Change: What does it mean for nature, people and the climate? reviews the extent of mangrove forest cover and considers the potential consequences of changes in mangrove extent for more than 1,000 mangrove associated species including birds, fish, plants, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Further, the report analyses the potential consequences of changes in mangrove extent on carbon storage and for small scale fishers, demonstrating that restoration is clearly needed but showcases encouraging examples of mangrove recovery. The report highlights the need to improve our knowledge of what species use and depend upon mangroves in order to better understand the consequences of changes in mangroves on people and our natural world. It also emphasises the need for integrated thinking, by conserving, restoring and sustainably managing mangrove ecosystems in a coherent and inclusive way, and coordinating management and governance actions across local, national, regional and international scales. We urgently need to transform our relationship with nature and transition to a more equitable and sustainable future in which activities that result in ecosystem loss and degradation are a thing of the past.</div>
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<strong>Machine learning could help save mangrove forests</strong><br>
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<span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="machine-learning-mangroves" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2023/04/20163042/Mangroveforests-2048x1367.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="machine-learning-mangroves" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>GLOBAL - Mangrove forests, essential components of tropical and subtropical coastal zones, provide numerous goods and ecosystem services crucial for ecological balance. However, these critical habitats are under threat as they continue to disappear and degrade across the globe. One way to facilitate effective conservation and promote policies for mangrove protection is to carefully assess these habitats, monitor their changes, and identify fragmented areas. Unfortunately, obtaining this vital information is often a challenging endeavor. Dr. Neda Bihamta Toosi, a postdoc at Isfahan University of Technology in Iran specializes in landscape pattern changes using remote sensing. She explained that since mangrove forests are located in tidal zones and marshy areas, they are hardly accessible. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Conservation, Dr. Bihamta Toosi, alongside a team of authors, investigated the potential of using machine learning to classify these delicate ecosystems. To compare the performance of various combinations of satellite images and classification techniques, the researchers assessed how well each method could map mangrove ecosystems. “We developed a novel method with a focus on landscape ecology for mapping the spatial disturbance of mangrove ecosystems,” said Dr. Bihamta Toosi. “The provided disturbance maps facilitate future management and planning activities for mangrove ecosystems in an efficient way, thus supporting the sustainable conservation of these coastal areas.”
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<strong>Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal</strong><br>
<em>Editors note: We include this story to highlight the importance mangroves have played in the survival of the human species throughout history</em><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="Map of Africa" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41559-023-02046-4/MediaObjects/41559_2023_2046_Fig1_HTML.png" height="322" border="0" alt="Map of Africa" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>AFRICAN CONTINENT - Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies first appear in the archaeological records of northern, eastern and southern Africa during the Middle Pleistocene epoch. The absence of MSA sites from West Africa limits evaluation of shared behaviours across the continent during the late Middle Pleistocene and the diversity of subsequent regionalized trajectories. Here we present evidence for the late Middle Pleistocene MSA occupation of the West African littoral at Bargny, Senegal, dating to 150 thousand years ago. Palaeoecological evidence suggests that Bargny was a hydrological refugium during the MSA occupation, supporting estuarine conditions during Middle Pleistocene arid phases. The stone tool technology at Bargny presents characteristics widely shared across Africa in the late Middle Pleistocene but which remain uniquely stable in West Africa to the onset of the Holocene. We explore how the persistent habitability of West African environments, including mangroves, contributes to distinctly West African trajectories of behavioural stability. Mangroves have high habitat heterogeneity and accessible subsistence resources, making them potential hotspots for Pleistocene forager populations. Adaptation to exploit these resources has the potential to open new axes for population expansions in West Africa.</div>
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<strong>Changes in mangrove coverage classification criteria could <span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">impact</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard"> the conservation of mangroves in Mexico</span> </strong><strong> </strong><br>
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<img width="400" title="mangrove-trees" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://www.thegef.org/sites/default/files/shutterstock_618408794.jpg" height="225" border="0" alt="mangrove-trees" align="left">MEXICO - Accurate estimates of habitat extent and rates of change are cruc<span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">ial inputs for the global, regional, and national assessments that guide </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">policy-making</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard"> and prioritize strategies. This can contribute to an understanding of ecosystems in the landscape for their use, management, and preservation. Mangroves are one of the t</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">ypes of ecosystems in which estimation discrepancies have been analyzed to </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">determine</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard"> the impacts of data quality on conservation and </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">policy-making</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">. We </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">identify</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard"> significant discrepancies in the extent of the last map of Mexican mangroves (i.e., 2020) produc</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">ed by the Mexican Mangrove Monitoring System (MMMS). We performed a comparative assessment between the 2020 and 2015 maps by using geographical information systems to analyze the spatial extent across these years and estimate the accuracy of map changes wi</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">th airborne data. We </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">observed</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard"> a spurious gain of 129,531 ha between 2015 and 2020, including 102,610 ha (79% of total changes) in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve and its surroundings. Furthermore, the mangrove definition changed, causing the MMMS to map o</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">ther coastal wetlands with the presence of Rhizophora mangle scrubs dispersed in the landscape. The analysis of MMMS airborne data </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">demonstrates</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard"> that this significant increase is due to changes in mangrove mapping criteria and definitions.</span> </div>
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<strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
Urge SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration to do more to protect Boca Chica and its wildlife. <a href="https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/4XMDa1Nlok6L-mn0El8q4w2?sourceid=1008843&utm_source=eeo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eeo1191&contactdata=StOLwb6u%2Bhl3ePjjqmSFkLmCDyaeGnXj7WqWjGQVycPdAeqkYOe4fUp0LlPU%2BXxS5tCiOwQWsPPQP0OD28TdVoSfsvYeafY6WCrqKcKeuXcx12%2BoEsX%2FziTYZTmSNKuTdzoRj10yOoT1cmW%2FnGwvxA%3D%3D&emci=1f626172-eae9-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=eab2e6b8-c7ea-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&ceid=2323674">SIGN THE PETITION</a><br>
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<strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"ceb28ee5-efeb-491c-9b69-715d3aefbfa1|7","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469775450,"Standard",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"Standard",335572020,"1",134245417,"false",469778325,"[\"Heading\",\"Text body\",\"caption\",\"Index\",\"Table Contents\"]"]}" data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">Elon Musk’s Spac</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Standard">eX launch site threatens wildlife</span></span> </strong></div>
<div><img width="400" title="spacex-crash-debris" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2ff8c1e17c147e31afccd7b402a76dff2bcab21/0_384_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=620&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none" height="240" border="0" alt="spacex-crash-debris" align="left">The site in Boca Chica, south Texas is surrounded by protected lands that host a huge range of local wildlife including turtles and hundreds of bird species. David Newstead, director of the nonprofit Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries, felt sick as he saw the fireball explode on the launchpad. SpaceX’s site is surrounded by state and federally protected lands<strong>.</strong> The explosion littered parts of the delicate ecosystem of the <a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Lower_Rio_Grande_Valley/visit/boca_chica_beach.html">Boca Chica</a> tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley national wildlife refuge – comprising tidal flats, beaches, grasslands and coastal dunes that host a huge range of wildlife – with rocket debris “I knew from the other explosions that the rocket would be scattered all over the refuge,” Newstead said. Cleanup took three months, he added The private space race is already causing concern about the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires-space-tourism-environment-emissions">potential climate impacts</a> of the fuel needed to propel the rockets. But environmentalists on the ground in south Texas say SpaceX’s testing site is having more immediate impacts. The refuge is made up of parcels the US Fish and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/wildlife">Wildlife</a> Service has been buying or leasing since 1979 when the federal agency came up with its plan to preserve as much of the land tucked against the Gulf Coast and the mouth of the Rio Grande River as possible, creating a patchwork of federally managed refuge land.<br>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="8-mile-beach-from-space" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/151000/151269/iss067e005185.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="8-mile-beach-from-space" align="left">AUSTRALIA - An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed the western coast of Australia where mangrove forests thrive along Eighty Mile Beach. These mangrove forests are located within the Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park, a 220-kilometer (140-mile) stretch of protected beach and coastal waters in western Australia. The marine park includes the rocky shores of Cape Keraudren, where a coastal nature reserve provides access to mangrove forests and seagrass meadows. The area shown in this photograph is an example of an intertidal zone ecosystem—where the coastline is above seawater at low tide and submerged in seawater at high tide. As low tide approaches, the ebb current takes seawater toward the Indian Ocean and exposes salt flats, intertidal flats, and mangrove forests. As high tide approaches, the flood current takes seawater inland and floods the coastline. During both incoming and outgoing tides, seawater flows through coastal waterways called tidal creeks. Mangrove trees withstand the fluctuation between high and low tide by means of an elongated root system that is exposed at low tide. Local fauna, such as the north-western mangrove seasnake, can be found living in this root system. Other species, like the mangrove golden whistler, are found in the tree canopy.</div>
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<strong>Save Endangered Species From SpaceX</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Question Your Shrimp Consumer/Markets Campaign! </strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Mangroves: Guidebook to Malaysia</strong><br>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Our short documentary, Reducing the Risk of Disaster through Nature-Based Solutions </strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ub0Z9x7NUYA">Mangroves</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<div style="clear:both;"><a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/childrens-calendar/"><img width="300" title="childrens-art-contest-2024" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 300px; height: 278px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/70ab76841d/Childrens.jpg" height="278" border="0" alt="childrens-art-contest-2024" align="left"></a>GLOBAL - We would like to invite children from your country to join in this fantastic, creative and educational competition. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art. The competition is open to all children worldwide, with selected winners published in the 2024 calendar to be distributed internationally to raise awareness of mangrove forest ecology. This colorful calendar has increased in popularity since its first publication in 2002. The 2024 calendar is our 22nd edition. We would like to invite children from your country to join in this fantastic creative and educational competition. It is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the vital role Mangroves play in the lives of coastal communities and marine life around the world whilst letting them explore their imagination and have fun when creating their pieces of art.<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Help us make this next calendar contest more successful than ever! Non-profit organizations, NGOs, schools, teachers, and other groups are invited to help organize local calendar contests and help MAP to get students involved. For any questions, contact Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, the international art competition organizer.</span><br>
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<strong>Can deep learning help us save mangrove forests?</strong><br>
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<span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="Public" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://earimediaprodweb.azurewebsites.net/Api/v1/Multimedia/37a3698c-a80d-4ace-9b0f-2e97f958ab38/Rendition/low-res/Content/Public" height="225" border="0" alt="Public" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>GLOBAL - Mangrove forests are an essential component of the coastal zones in tropical and subtropical areas, providing a wide range of goods and ecosystem services that play a vital role in ecology. They are also threatened, disappearing, and degraded across the globe. One way to stimulate effective mangrove conservation and encourage policies for their protection is to carefully assess mangrove habitats and how they change, and identify fragmented areas. But obtaining this kind of information is not always an easy task. “Since mangrove forests are located in tidal zones and marshy areas, they are hardly accessible,” says Dr. Neda Bihamta Toosi, postdoc at Isfahan University of Technology in Iran working on landscape pattern changes using remote sensing. In a recent study in the journal Nature Conservation, together with a team of authors, she explored ways to classify these fragile ecosystems using machine learning. Comparing the performance of different combinations of satellite images and classification techniques, the researchers looked at how good each method was at mapping mangrove ecosystems.
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<img width="400" title="80q" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://ddc514qh7t05d.cloudfront.net/dA/8ca4b43748fa6cd983825f95232e542b/2400w/80q" height="272" border="0" alt="80q" align="left">UGANDA - Ugandan environmental campaigner Judith Bero-Irwoth has spent years warning of the risks of a planned crude oil pipeline and its impact on communities in the west of the country. Protests by activists like Bero-Irwoth have ramped up in the Albertine Graben region and the capital, Kampala, in recent years since France's TotalEnergies and China National Offshore Oil Corporation struck deals to develop Uganda's oil fields. The agreements include the proposed $3.5-billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which would ship crude from Lake Albert in Uganda to global markets through a port on Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast. Development groups have raised alarm about the impacts on the climate - saying the pipeline will generate 34 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually - and on communities, as an estimated 14,000 households are at risk of losing their land. But climate campaigners are increasingly being targeted and stifled under the Public Management Order Act and legislation governing NGOs, said Dickens Kamugisha, chief executive of the Kampala-based Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO). Bero-Irwoth said she had become more cautious since police stormed her home in Buliisa district in September 2021 during a community meeting about the oil development plans.
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<strong>The government is trying to silence those who are against the pipeline</strong><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-05-at-15.09.28" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/04/06131530/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-05-at-15.09.28.jpg" height="300" border="0" alt="WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-05-at-15.09.28" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span><span style="display: none;"> </span>TANZANIA - EACOP is a massive crude oil pipeline that will involve the transportation of crude oil from Hoima in Uganda to a Tanzanian port located in Chongoleani village, in Tanga region. It will cover 1,445 kilometres in Uganda and Tanzania, but 80 per cent of the land it will go through is in Tanzania. Local communities depend on land as the crucial resource to support their livelihoods, which consist mostly of farming and livestock keeping, so if their land is taken or ruined by the pipeline, they will be seriously affected. The project is therefore going to affect the development of many communities and impact negatively on any effort to create a sustainable and liveable local environment. But EACOP will not only affect people; it will also pose a threat to the animals that depend on the land that will be taken up by this project. As most activists and CSOs have noticed, the government is trying to silence those who are against the pipeline. Some of us have raised our concerns since the very beginning of the project but our questions have not been addressed and the project has continued regardless.<br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="WAP Workers" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/CUfKPUt1t60cPbMBl6or6QmdNM3f9hGYny-BjbYJ58INYJNKximeDWLxjcemOEigR2I2q_NkLXrQbThUoZjbtov4pBWoA-AFPviQIj8PEJaR440xpnoFN4YALlHs_Mq5hsnxzVXPzS8WBwdyLq7XzA" height="225" border="0" alt="WAP Workers" align="left">TANZANIA - The Tanzania Forestry Services Agency (TFS) partnered with various environmental stakeholders, including the Women Against Poverty (WAP) organization, to promote mangrove conservation in coastal areas. TFS, WAP, mangrove clubs, and the coastal community living in the Kigamboni district's Tundwi Songani ward have teamed together to plant mangroves as one approach to continue to encourage people to be active stakeholders in caring for and protecting mangroves. Through this collaborative effort, TFS, WAP, mangrove clubs, and the coastal community together we planted 3700 mangroves in Tundwi Songani ward. The aim was to promote the protection of mangroves, raise awareness of the importance of mangrove conservation towards mitigating the adverse effects of climate change. This is crucial step towards ensuring the long-term survival of mangroves. As the local communities including fishermen, farmers, and other stakeholders participated. As Principle conservation officer from TFS headquarter provided insights on the importance of conserving mangroves. Together with TFS, mangroves clubs and local community, we planted 3700 mangroves in Tundwi Songani towards achieving sustainable development and ensuring the long-term well-being of our planet.<br>
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<strong>Mangrove Restoration in Costa Rica: A Collaborative Effort</strong><br>
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<img width="400" title="mangroves-costa-rica" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://www.govisitcostarica.com/images/photos/mob-mangrove-at-sierpe.jpg" height="225" border="0" alt="mangroves-costa-rica" align="left">COSTA RICA - Restoration of Bahía Tomas in La Cruz, Guanacaste is one of the latest initiatives by the Davivienda-GIZ-ACG-FPN alliance. This collaborative effort is working towards restoring and preserving the mangrove ecosystem, which has been damaged by climate change and human activities. The project aims to restore three hectares of the Bahía Tomas mangrove ecosystem by the end of 2023. In addition, ten hectares of damaged mangroves will be closely monitored to begin the restoration and conservation process. Biomonitoring and adaptation actions are being carried out to lower salinity, where natural regeneration has not been possible. The alliance’s efforts to preserve the mangroves go beyond restoration. They also support local communities that depend on the ecosystem for their livelihoods. The Cuajiniquil women’s cooperative – Coopemprendedoras – has benefited the most environmentally, socially, and economically from the mangrove restoration. They have been working to obtain a food truck to promote their work, and GIZ is helping them define a business plan and provide the necessary assets and marketing tools to enable the cooperative’s project. </div>
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<div><img width="400" title="egret-in-florida-mangrove" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_2507,w_3761,x_0,y_0/c_limit,dpr_auto,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_80,w_1080/shutterstock_1837297270_t7putm.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="egret-in-florida-mangrove" align="left">USA - As we know from living on the Suncoast, mangroves are all around us. They grow along almost every coastline, provide habitat for fish and other wildlife, protect our homes from destructive storms and erosion, maintain clean water, and combat climate change, thanks to their carbon-storing abilities. Still, even with their immense beauty and vital importance to our community, mangroves are threatened in our area. To stand up for the trees, Suncoast Waterkeeper has teamed up with Exspanse Artificial Intelligence, Dimensional Geomatics and New College of Florida on a mangrove mapping project, which will track mangrove growth and conditions along northern Sarasota Bay, Palma Sola Bay, southern Tampa Bay, Terra Ceia Bay and the Manatee River. Training for the project starts this month, when Suncoast Waterkeeper and New College data science graduate students will learn how to operate drones, utilizing photogrammetry to measure and map the local mangroves. (Photogrammetry is the act of deriving precise measurements from photographs.) The training, led by Dimensional Geomatics, will provide a standard operating procedure for community and student-based mapping using drone imagery. Exspanse, based out of Longboat Key, will then provide its modeling platform to New College data science students for the hands-on experience of building, training and deploying models using data from the project. <br>
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<strong>Mangroves common in South Florida are moving north</strong><br>
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<span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="florida mangrove sunset" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://images.axios.com/JoRuqTBOTMmW7d1S1DDvA5AsMMw=/0x0:3800x2138/1920x1080/2023/04/18/1681831739846.jpg?w=1920" height="225" border="0" alt="florida mangrove sunset" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>USA - Floridians are familiar with mangroves — but imagine them moving into Georgia or South Carolina. With the country experiencing fewer freeze events, mangroves that thrive in coastal wetlands are moving into salt marsh habitats at higher latitudes, Villanova University professor Samantha Chapman tells Axios. Chapman worked on a study exploring how salt marshes and mangroves build elevation in the face of sea-level rise. While mangroves serve as natural sea barriers for coastal communities, help with carbon storage and provide habitats for animals, the study also says that "consequences of this vegetation shift for ecosystem sustainability remain unknown."The study could help scientists decide how best to manage coastal wetlands, including whether mangroves should be planted. It predicts that black mangroves moving into new environments can build soil elevation by 8 mm per year, four times greater than salt marshes. But mangroves can also drown. Neither salt marshes nor mangroves have survived a centenary sea-level increase of 100 cm.
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="indias-coastal-forests" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-99652988,imgsize-81242,width-400,resizemode-4/99652988.jpg" height="251" border="0" alt="indias-coastal-forests" align="left"> INDIA - They lack the solemnity of a banyan tree and the stature of a deodar, but mangroves are second to none in the fight against climate change. Be it the Sundarbans in Bengal or the Gulf of Kachchh mangroves in Gujarat, they have been soaking up carbon dioxide with about five times the efficiency of terrestrial trees. That’s because they absorb this greenhouse gas from both the ground and the air with their aerial roots. Recognising the importance of mangroves, the Centre had announced the Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes (MISHTI) scheme in this year’s Budget. Under the scheme, mangroves will be planted along India’s coasts and on salt pan lands. However, experts say the scheme’s success will depend on focused surveys to understand the mangrove ecosystems. Recognising the importance of mangroves, the Centre had announced the Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes (MISHTI) scheme in this year’s Budget. Under the scheme, mangroves will be planted along India’s coasts and on salt pan lands. However, experts say the scheme’s success will depend on focused surveys to understand the mangrove ecosystems. “Conservation, plantation, and restoration of mangroves need to be sped up,” says Kathiresan Kandasamy , former director and honorary professor of the Department of Marine Science at Annamalai University. </div>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">‘<strong>I was born here, and I will die here’: Mangrove-planting is helping this man save his flooded home</strong><br>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="mangrove-man" style="border:1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);width:400px;height:225px;" src="https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/07/54/35/18/773x435_cmsv2_3d466d15-9c70-506f-b615-04b62dc0f9eb-7543518.jpg" height="225" border="0" alt="mangrove-man" align="left">INDIA - Sea level rise and severe tidal floods are forcing residents of India’s Vypin Island to relocate to higher ground. “The floods are occurring more frequently and lasting longer,” says T P Murukesan, who lives on the low-lying island of India’s western coast. The last flood was chest-height for his young grandson. “Every flood brings waters this high, we just deal with it.” In his raised home, white paint peels off the damp walls. But the retired fisherman has almost single handedly been buffering the impacts of the rising waters in his community. Known locally as ‘Mangrove Man’, Murukesan has turned to planting the trees along the receding shores of Vypin in the Kochi region of Kerala state. Murukesan says he has planted over 100,000 mangroves. He plants saplings on alternate days and does most of the work himself. The mangroves he planted in and around the area in 2014 have grown into a dense thicket and are helping reduce the intensity of tidal flooding, he says. Some help comes in the form of saplings from the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, a non-government organisation based in Chennai, India. </div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<strong>The award-winning Marvellous Mangroves</strong> (MM) curriculum educates children on the importance of mangroves and their ecological functions, teaching them about modern challenges and mechanisms for sustainability. <a href="https://youtu.be/CMCIvaFdrgY">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum in Bangladesh - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA87Fq0VIpQ">WATCH VIDEO</a><br>
MARVELLOUS MANGROVES IN BRAZIL<br>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://www.scseagrant.org/blue-carbon-law-symposium/">Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium May 17-18, 2023 in Athens, GA</a></strong></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>FEATURE STORY</strong></span></h3>
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<div style="clear:both;"><strong>Coastal Lagoon Education program launched</strong><br>
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<div style="clear:both;"><img width="450" title="Coastal-lagoon" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 450px; height: 253px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4e09aa46c0/Screen-Shot-2023-04-06-at-8.06.10-PM.jpg" height="253" border="0" alt="Coastal-lagoon" align="left">CAYMAN ISLANDS - Coastal Lagoon Education Project announced its new website which provides educational resources, recording observations and connection with the community. Raising awareness of the key issues Coastal Lagoons are facing both locally and around the world is vital to the ongoing mission of environmental preservation and protection. CSL firmly believes that they need to work together to make positive changes to behaviour and practices to ensure future generations can benefit and enjoy natural habitats such as coastal lagoons. Introducing students, teachers, parents and their communities to the wonderful world of the tropical lagoon coastline through a curriculum-based, hands-on science program. Linking exciting and fun-filled ecological exploration with a deep understanding of the importance and intricacies of this wonderful ecosystem throughout the Caribbean and world-wide. The Coastal Lagoon ecosystem comprises three uniquely interdependent ecosystems - mangroves, seagrass and coral reefs. While each individual system is specifically biodiverse they are all interrelated, sharing and depending on a series of unique forms of flora and fauna. The education program emphasises this connectivity.</div>
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<strong>Oceanographic connectivity explains the intra-specific diversity of mangrove forests at global scales</strong><br>
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<span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="Mangroves_at_sunset" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Mangroves_at_sunset.jpg" height="267" border="0" alt="Mangroves_at_sunset" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>GLOBAL - Among the multiple drivers shaping the intra-specific diversity (i.e., genetic diversity) of mangrove forests, the role of connectivity driven by ocean currents has not been well defined at global scales, despite its potential role in regulating population gene flow. Using biophysical modeling and empirical genetic data, we show that oceanographic connectivity can explain population genetic differentiation in mangroves, regardless of the species, region, and genetic marker, overcoming classical approaches based on geographic distance. Ocean currents can either create barriers that isolate populations and increase differentiation levels or promote long-distance dispersal responsible for first settlements and broadscale biogeographical patterns. These findings are relevant for mangroves’ biogeography and evolution, as well as management strategies considering climate change and genetic biodiversity conservation. We show that ocean currents produce skewed dispersal kernels for mangroves, highlighting the role of rare long-distance dispersal events responsible for historical settlements. Overall, we demonstrate the role of oceanographic connectivity in structuring mangrove intra-specific diversity. Our findings are critical for mangroves’ biogeography and evolution, but also for management strategies considering climate change and genetic biodiversity conservation.
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209637120"><img width="100" title="Readmore" style="width:100px;height:43px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/ea2198f87a/Readmore.jpg" height="43" border="0" alt="Readmore" align="middle"></a>
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<div><strong>Ocean rim states liaise over conservation of mangroves</strong></div>
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<img width="400" title="Mangroves-high-tide" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://www.ippmedia.com/sites/default/files/styles/postimg/public/articles/2023/03/21/Mangroves-high-tide-e1626132670126.jpg" height="200" border="0" alt="Mangroves-high-tide" align="left">TANZANIA - Dr Amani Ngusaru, the country director for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), said at the opening ceremony that the forests are an important component of the marine ecosystem. Marine conservation experts in the region are scratching their heads on how to protect the mangrove ecosystem of the western Indian Ocean region, he said, affirming that enhanced governance and management of mangrove forests was a major requirement. Threats to the ecosystem arise from natural trends like rising sea levels and certain economic activities, he told the experts meeting under the Western Indian Ocean Mangrove Network (WIOMN). They come from institutions in Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar, Somalia, the Comoros, Mauritius and the Seychelles. Occasional threats on mangrove threats include floods as they result in water-level alteration, bank erosion, and diversion of water courses. There is also sand deposition from sea and land that cuts off portions of mangrove forests from salt water even with sea-level rise as a result of global warming, he said. “Marine life is not complete without sea grasses, mangroves and reefs because creatures like fish live, eat and reproduce in such features. Therefore without proper management, the coastal ecosystem will be dead,” he said.Tanzania’s sea mangroves are legally protected though there are challenges threatening their sustainability, including human activities that are now being controlled, the director noted.<br>
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<strong>Libreville’s shrinking mangroves leave Gabon’s capital prone to floods</strong><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="display: none;"> </span><img width="400" title="WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-05-at-15.09.28" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/04/06131530/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-05-at-15.09.28.jpg" height="300" border="0" alt="WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-05-at-15.09.28" align="left"><span style="display: none;"> </span>GABON - In 2021, Gabon’s space research agency, AGEOS, concluded that the country’s capital, Libreville, had lost nearly 70 hectares (170 acres) of mangroves in three years. That’s an area about a fifth the size of New York City’s Central Park, which “is not much,” says Alfred Ngomanda, commissioner of the National Centre for Scientific and Technological Research of Gabon (CENAREST). “The surface area of mangroves in Gabon is much larger than that,” he tells Mongabay. “We have a deforestation rate that is not even 1%.” But while this may be a negligible amount at the national level, on the scale of Libreville, which has 1,883 hectares (4,653 acres) of mangroves, this represents 3.55% — which is worrying, says Magloire Désiré Mounganga, a former scientific coordinator at the ANPN, Gabon’s national parks agency. “There are several things that threaten it,” he says. “First of all, there is erosion, i.e. the rise of the sea, but when I go out into the field I also see urban pressure. It is such that the mangrove ecosystem which is in the urban periphery, unfortunately, is destined to be regularly damaged, if not completely destroyed.”<br>
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<strong>The Nature Conservancy Identifies Sites for Mangrove Insurance Pilot Projects in The Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico</strong><br>
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<img width="400" title="mangrove-insurance" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://natureconservancy-h.assetsadobe.com/is/image/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/photos/tnc_70062808_4000x2200.jpg?mangrove-insurance" height="220" border="0" alt="mangrove-insurance" align="left">NORTH AMERICA - Today, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), in collaboration with AXA XL, CINVESTAV-Merida, the University of California Santa Cruz, and Builders Initiative Foundation— published the final of three reports that assess the feasibility of mangrove insurance policies in The Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico. This final report builds on previous research that showed these locations have some of the largest areas of mangroves that would be cost-effective to restore for their flood risk reduction benefits. The report identifies nine specific locations—three in Mexico, four in Florida, and two in The Bahamas—as potential sites for mangrove insurance pilot projects. These locations were identified based on the presence of large areas of mangroves, the high protective value of mangroves, and strong interest from key stakeholders.“Mangroves are cornerstones of climate resilience for coastal communities – they serve as an important source of risk reduction and provide sustenance and livelihood co-benefits along with carbon sequestration,” said Daniel Morchain, TNC’s Global Climate Adaptation Director. “Given the alarming rate of mangrove loss worldwide, a viable solution is needed to finance mangrove restoration and protection. We are optimistic about the potential for establishing mangrove insurance policies in locations where mangroves buffer communities from the impacts of storms, support the health and well-being of local communities, and capture and store carbon to mitigate the impacts of climate change.”</div>
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<strong>Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium</strong><br>
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<div><img width="400" title="BlueCarbon" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/4e09aa46c0/BlueCarbon.jpg" height="218" border="0" alt="BlueCarbon" align="left">USA - The first Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium will convene legal scholars, ESG investors, conservation finance and carbon registry specialists, coastal and marine decision-makers, and scientists to co-create a whole-field understanding of the role and opportunity for coastal blue carbon investment. The first Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium will be held at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, May 17-18, 2023. We hope that you will join us to explore this emerging area of science, policy, and law.<br>
Our objectives are to: understand the legal and policy context of carbon credit markets and how blue carbon fits with these markets, discuss what “blue carbon” means and the state of blue carbon science, assess the quality of claims about blue carbon project potential under qualification conditions, learn about specific blue carbon projects being developed in the U.S. and internationally, and identify challenges, barriers, and social equity needs to determine successful blue carbon projects. This year’s Blue Carbon Law Symposium is co-organized by Georgia Sea Grant, the University of Georgia Institute of Government, the University of Georgia School of Law, and the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, with funding provided by the National Sea Grant Law Center. If you are interested in co-sponsoring this event please contact Brita Jessen. We are accepting submissions to the Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal. Abstracts submissions (300 words maximum) should be based on original, unpublished work. Please include the title of the paper, author’s name, affiliations, and appropriate contact information and submit as a Word document to Catherine Janasie.<br>
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<strong>Neighbors sink plan to bulldoze mangroves</strong><br>
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<div><a href="https://www.goshennews.com/news/national_news/in-india-mangrove-trees-make-way-for-booming-city-of-kochi/article_fb016916-ed49-50dd-bc62-62b13a1dec43.html"><img width="100" title="Readmore" style="width:100px;height:43px;" src="https://08298c6aec-custmedia.vresp.com/ea2198f87a/Readmore.jpg" height="43" border="0" alt="Readmore" align="middle"></a></div>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img width="400" title="dugong-sanctuary" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://newsonair.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/E-Wu8zyUcAEbSJq.jpg" height="317" border="0" alt="dugong-sanctuary" align="left">INDIA - India’s first Dugong conservation reserve will be built in Tamil Nadu for the conservation of Dugong, a marine animal that has been enlisted vulnerable to extinction on a global scale by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Principal Secretary, Environment Climate Change & Forests, Government of Tamil Nadu, Supriya Sahu took to her social media account to confirm the news. She wrote, “Government of Tamil Nadu will set up India’s first Dugong Conservation Reserve in the Palk Bay.” The reserve will spread over an area of 500 km in Palk Bay on the southeast coast of Tamil Nadu. Palk Bay is a semi-enclosed shallow water body with a water depth maximum of 13 meters. Located between India and Sri Lanka along the Tamil Nadu coast, the dugong is a flagship species in the region. Dugong or the sea cow is the State animal of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This endangered marine species survive on seagrass and other aquatic vegetation found in the area. It is the only herbivorous mammal that is strictly marine and is the only extant species in the family Dugongidae.</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum begins with a simple philosophy – getting future generations to not only learn about, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">understand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the importance of mangrove forests.</span> <a href="https://mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove-education/">VISIT</a></span></p>
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<strong>The award-winning Marvellous Mangroves</strong> (MM) curriculum educates children on the importance of mangroves and their ecological functions, teaching them about modern challenges and mechanisms for sustainability. <a href="https://youtu.be/CMCIvaFdrgY">VIEW VIDEO</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Marvellous Mangroves Curriculum in Bangladesh - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA87Fq0VIpQ">WATCH VIDEO</a><br>
MARVELLOUS MANGROVES IN BRAZIL<br>
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