#mangroveforests — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mangroveforests, aggregated by home.social.
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University Of Queensland
"The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back."
https://environment.uq.edu.au/article/2026/08/world%E2%80%99s-mangrove-forests-are-bouncing-back-%E2%80%99s-good-news-our-coasts-and-climate#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #MangroveForests #Coasts #Climate
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University Of Queensland
"The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back."
https://environment.uq.edu.au/article/2026/08/world%E2%80%99s-mangrove-forests-are-bouncing-back-%E2%80%99s-good-news-our-coasts-and-climate#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #MangroveForests #Coasts #Climate
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University Of Queensland
"The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back."
https://environment.uq.edu.au/article/2026/08/world%E2%80%99s-mangrove-forests-are-bouncing-back-%E2%80%99s-good-news-our-coasts-and-climate#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #MangroveForests #Coasts #Climate
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University Of Queensland
"The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back."
https://environment.uq.edu.au/article/2026/08/world%E2%80%99s-mangrove-forests-are-bouncing-back-%E2%80%99s-good-news-our-coasts-and-climate#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #MangroveForests #Coasts #Climate
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University Of Queensland
"The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back."
https://environment.uq.edu.au/article/2026/08/world%E2%80%99s-mangrove-forests-are-bouncing-back-%E2%80%99s-good-news-our-coasts-and-climate#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #MangroveForests #Coasts #Climate
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As #EastAfrica’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods
By ALLAN OLINGO, July 5, 2026 at 10:36 pm
MALINDI, #Kenya (AP) — "The unfinished restaurant is still little more than concrete walls and wooden beams. As her daughter sweeps away the last piles of sand, 54-year-old Nuru Mohammed directs women hanging fishing nets to serve as decor. In a few days, the beachside restaurant on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast will open, offering another way to earn a living.
" 'For us women, this is hope,' says Mohammed, who, for most of her life, was one of the few fisherwomen in Malindi, a town northeast of the port city of #Mombasa. 'It will help support many families that have depended on the ocean for decades.'
"Across East Africa’s coast, fisherfolk are increasingly turning to tourism, #EcosystemRestoration and other conservation-based businesses, reinventing their relationship with the sea as #ClimateChange, #overfishing and declining ocean health threaten their livelihoods.
"In Kenya, women are turning restored #MangroveForests into sources of income through #beekeeping and #ecotourism. In #Tanzania’s #Zanzibar archipelago, fishing communities are protecting #CoralReefs through locally managed closures. In #Mozambique, #SeaGrassRestoration is creating jobs while reviving marine habitats. Together, these efforts are redefining resilience, not as leaving the ocean behind, but as restoring it while building enduring livelihoods.
" 'Communities that depend on the ocean are also its best stewards,' said Andreane Martel, project director for a conservation program dubbed #ReSea. 'When local people, especially women, lead conservation, they protect #biodiversity while creating more resilient and inclusive livelihoods.' "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/LTBNs#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateResilience #OceansAreLife #Stewardship
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#MangroveForests are healing after decades of human destruction
by Matt McGrath and Esme Stallard
June 4, 2026"The world's coastal #mangrove forests, which protect millions of people from storms - and soak up vast amounts of planet-warming gases - are staging an unexpected comeback, scientists find.
"For decades these swampy trees had been declining rapidly as they were cleared for fish farms and housing.
"But a new study shows that since 2010 the world has been gaining more mangroves than it has been losing - driven by stronger #LegalProtections and increased #PublicAwareness of their importance, sparked by disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
"The researchers say the key factor though is the remarkable capacity of these forests to #regenerate naturally once humans stop chopping them down.
"Mangroves are one of the world's unsung #environmental heroes.
"Not only do they store up to five times more #CarbonDioxide than land-based forests, but their tangled roots can also slow down waves and protect coastal communities from #StormSurges and #tsunamis.
"These same roots provide a perfect nursery for many species of fish and other #MarineLife - protecting them from predators and providing ample food.
"These benefits, though, have come under serious threat over the past century as the rise of fish farming, agriculture and the expansion of coastal cities and towns have seen mangroves chopped down and rapidly removed.
"From the 1980s to 2010, over 12,000 sq km (4,600 sq miles) of mangroves were cleared or destroyed across #Asia, #Africa and the #Americas - an area the size of Jamaica.
"However, the new study shows a real reversal of that trend, particularly over the last decade. The total net losses - the forest lost and not replaced - since the 1980s have now been reduced to around 849 sq km (328 sq miles)."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4pk07npvvoArchived version:
https://archive.ph/EX19Y#SolarPunkSunday #FishNurseries #Mangroves #RestoreNature #CoastalRewilding #RestoringMangroves
#PreserveNature #OceansAreLife