Providing alternatives to mangrove wood — like cookstoves that use other fuels — or management plans so that communities can sustainably harvest mangrove wood can also help, de Boer adds.

UNESCO estimates that between 1980 and 2005, some countries have lost more than 40% of mangroves, often as a result of coastal development. Besides the effects of climate change , such as rising sea ...

The project, whose Swahili name means “mangroves together,” has its roots in a small mangrove restoration effort that started in 1991 in Gazi Bay, spearheaded by KMFRI.

Just before dawn, a flotilla of wooden canoes drifts silently through mangrove-tangled channels where roots sprout from the black mud of the lagoon. Here, at the edge between sea and forest, lies a ...

Plastic bottles, tarpaulin sheets and pieces of wood are seen stuck between the mangrove roots. The water around the mangrove forest is polluted and dark.

International Woman’s Day was marked by keen environmentalists in the Kep provincial capital, with 1,000 mangrove seedlings planted. “Mangrove trees have intertwined roots, similar to a group of women ...

Black mangrove roots are distinct dark, woody, fingerlike projections that grow vertically from the sand. Resort cleared mangroves: Sandpiper Bay plants mangroves to replace forest it destroyed.

Black mangrove roots are distinct dark, woody, fingerlike projections that grow vertically from the sand. Resort cleared mangroves: Sandpiper Bay plants mangroves to replace forest it destroyed.

Plastic bottles, tarpaulin sheets and pieces of wood are seen stuck between the mangrove roots. The water around the mangrove forest is polluted and dark. After dozens of years being able to feel the ...

Paula Hamadi, 53, said that she never saw the mangrove forest as bad as it is now. For years, she’s been going to the forest almost every day during the low tide in the morning to search for clams.