#mangroves — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mangroves, aggregated by home.social.
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AAG and Partners Lead Large-Scale #Mangroves Restoration to Strengthen #Climate Resilience in #Ghana 's Coastal Communities
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AAG and Partners Lead Large-Scale #Mangroves Restoration to Strengthen #Climate Resilience in #Ghana 's Coastal Communities
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Photo competition shines a light on #MangroveForests around the world: https://zorz.it/tImNs
#MattGrowcoot #MangrovePhotographyAwards #mangroves #NaturePhotography #PhotoCompetition #wildlife #winners #contest
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Photo competition shines a light on #MangroveForests around the world: https://zorz.it/tImNs
#MattGrowcoot #MangrovePhotographyAwards #mangroves #NaturePhotography #PhotoCompetition #wildlife #winners #contest
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Mangrove photography awards 2026 – in pictures
'A selection of the winners, runners-up and highly commended photos from the Mangrove photography awards, run by the Mangrove Action Project, which received 5,258 entries from 87 countries. In its 12th year, the awards continue to offer a window into landscapes viewers may otherwise never encounter’
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Mangrove photography awards 2026 – in pictures
'A selection of the winners, runners-up and highly commended photos from the Mangrove photography awards, run by the Mangrove Action Project, which received 5,258 entries from 87 countries. In its 12th year, the awards continue to offer a window into landscapes viewers may otherwise never encounter’
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Today is International Day for #Mangroves. After decades of destruction, global #mangrove #forests are rebounding in some parts of the world – a tentative #climate gain for #coasts #wildlife and people 🌴🔥 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/06/mangroves-are-making-a-comeback-its-a-rare-climate-success-story/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Today is International Day for #Mangroves. After decades of destruction, global #mangrove #forests are rebounding in some parts of the world – a tentative #climate gain for #coasts #wildlife and people 🌴🔥 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/06/mangroves-are-making-a-comeback-its-a-rare-climate-success-story/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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🌱 International Day for Mangrove Conservation!🌱
Can mangroves survive another strong EL Niño?
This #GeoLog shares some good news: after decades of decline, #mangroves are growing back in parts of the world, thanks to restoration and natural regrowth. But it's not all good news - places like the Niger Delta are still losing mangroves fast, and a strong EL Niño this year could put even the recovering areas at risk⚠️.
🧵Read more here: https://egu.eu/0M2YDG
📸: Joern Behrens on #imaggeo -
🌱 International Day for Mangrove Conservation!🌱
Can mangroves survive another strong EL Niño?
This #GeoLog shares some good news: after decades of decline, #mangroves are growing back in parts of the world, thanks to restoration and natural regrowth. But it's not all good news - places like the Niger Delta are still losing mangroves fast, and a strong EL Niño this year could put even the recovering areas at risk⚠️.
🧵Read more here: https://egu.eu/0M2YDG
📸: Joern Behrens on #imaggeo -
Root of the Solution
Vladimir Borzykin, ThailandPhotographed close to the mangrove floor, this image strips away horizon and scale to focus entirely on the exposed roots — tangled at first glance, but revealing structure and rhythm the longer you look.
Photograph: Vladimir Borzykin/MPOTY
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Root of the Solution
Vladimir Borzykin, ThailandPhotographed close to the mangrove floor, this image strips away horizon and scale to focus entirely on the exposed roots — tangled at first glance, but revealing structure and rhythm the longer you look.
Photograph: Vladimir Borzykin/MPOTY
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Mangue Beat
Lucas Gonçalves Garcias, Brazil
Aerial view of the Tejipió River in Recife, dividing shrimp ponds maintained by residents of Ilha de Deus — many of whom depend on the ecosystem’s health for their livelihood — from a stretch of mangrove forest partly filled in for a naval zone. The varied colours of the ponds trace different stages and depths of shrimp farming.Photograph: MPOTY
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Mangue Beat
Lucas Gonçalves Garcias, Brazil
Aerial view of the Tejipió River in Recife, dividing shrimp ponds maintained by residents of Ilha de Deus — many of whom depend on the ecosystem’s health for their livelihood — from a stretch of mangrove forest partly filled in for a naval zone. The varied colours of the ponds trace different stages and depths of shrimp farming.Photograph: MPOTY
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Footprint of the Earth
Abijith Soman, IndiaAn island shaped like a footprint emerges from Kerala’s backwaters, its mangroves tracing the toes and sole of the print. Many of these islands were once mangrove forest before being cleared for coconut plantations — on some, the mangroves are now reclaiming that ground. A quiet mark of where nature is stepping back in.
Photograph: Abijith Soman/MPOTY
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Footprint of the Earth
Abijith Soman, IndiaAn island shaped like a footprint emerges from Kerala’s backwaters, its mangroves tracing the toes and sole of the print. Many of these islands were once mangrove forest before being cleared for coconut plantations — on some, the mangroves are now reclaiming that ground. A quiet mark of where nature is stepping back in.
Photograph: Abijith Soman/MPOTY
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Beneath Ancient Light
Ryuhei Suguri, IndonesiaUnder the Milky Way, a solitary mangrove stands in shallow tidal water, its reflection still in the low tide — a quiet pairing of ancient starlight with one of Earth’s most vital coastal ecosystems.
Photograph: Ryuhei Suguri/MPOTY
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Beneath Ancient Light
Ryuhei Suguri, IndonesiaUnder the Milky Way, a solitary mangrove stands in shallow tidal water, its reflection still in the low tide — a quiet pairing of ancient starlight with one of Earth’s most vital coastal ecosystems.
Photograph: Ryuhei Suguri/MPOTY
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Tigers downsized
Where the Mangroves Begin
Kallol Mukherjee, IndiaTwo jungle cat kittens emerge from the dense mangrove forest in the Sundarban tiger reserve. It is a rare glimpse of the smaller, lesser-known wildlife that shares this tidal landscape with the reserve’s tigers, and survives its shifting mud, saline water and daily tidal flooding.
Photograph: Kallol Mukherjee/MPOTY
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Tigers downsized
Where the Mangroves Begin
Kallol Mukherjee, IndiaTwo jungle cat kittens emerge from the dense mangrove forest in the Sundarban tiger reserve. It is a rare glimpse of the smaller, lesser-known wildlife that shares this tidal landscape with the reserve’s tigers, and survives its shifting mud, saline water and daily tidal flooding.
Photograph: Kallol Mukherjee/MPOTY
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Seeking Refuge in the Mangroves
Evan Cooper, BahamasA juvenile green turtle in a shallow Bahamian mangrove forest near sunset during high tide. As the water levels rise and the tide comes in, the mangroves’ roots transform from a barren buffer to a flourishing ecosystem home to sea turtles, crustaceans, fish and much more. Given its size, this turtle has probably arrived here from the Sargasso Sea.
Photograph: Evan Cooper/MPOTY
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Seeking Refuge in the Mangroves
Evan Cooper, BahamasA juvenile green turtle in a shallow Bahamian mangrove forest near sunset during high tide. As the water levels rise and the tide comes in, the mangroves’ roots transform from a barren buffer to a flourishing ecosystem home to sea turtles, crustaceans, fish and much more. Given its size, this turtle has probably arrived here from the Sargasso Sea.
Photograph: Evan Cooper/MPOTY
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From Pillars in the Sea
Nicoló Brugnara, IndiaIn Versova Koliwada, an elder prays among rows of drying Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus) hung on bamboo racks. For generations, the Koli have preserved fish this way, but as seas warm and coasts urbanise, fishing livelihoods become less viable.
Photograph: Nicolò Brugnara/MPOTY
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From Pillars in the Sea
Nicoló Brugnara, IndiaIn Versova Koliwada, an elder prays among rows of drying Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus) hung on bamboo racks. For generations, the Koli have preserved fish this way, but as seas warm and coasts urbanise, fishing livelihoods become less viable.
Photograph: Nicolò Brugnara/MPOTY
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Fast Asleep
Kerron Noel, Trinidad and TobagoA silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) asleep on a red mangrove tree at the Caroni bird sanctuary, Caroni swamp. Though the silky anteater is classified globally as a species of ‘least concern’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it still faces significant risk in Trinidad due to habitat destruction, forest fires and illegal hunting.
Photograph: Kerron Noel/MPOTY
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Fast Asleep
Kerron Noel, Trinidad and TobagoA silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) asleep on a red mangrove tree at the Caroni bird sanctuary, Caroni swamp. Though the silky anteater is classified globally as a species of ‘least concern’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it still faces significant risk in Trinidad due to habitat destruction, forest fires and illegal hunting.
Photograph: Kerron Noel/MPOTY
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Feeding Grounds Under the Canopy
Ewan Tregarot, Netherlands Antilles
Grey snappers hunt through a school of bait fish beneath the mangrove canopy of Lac Bay, Bonaire. The image was captured during a fish monitoring survey, as shafts of midday light revealed predator-prey interactions usually hidden in these submerged forests. A reminder that Bonaire’s celebrated reefs depend on the mangroves that shelter and feed them.
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Feeding Grounds Under the Canopy
Ewan Tregarot, Netherlands Antilles
Grey snappers hunt through a school of bait fish beneath the mangrove canopy of Lac Bay, Bonaire. The image was captured during a fish monitoring survey, as shafts of midday light revealed predator-prey interactions usually hidden in these submerged forests. A reminder that Bonaire’s celebrated reefs depend on the mangroves that shelter and feed them.
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Mudskippers in Awe!
Ashok Behera, India
Two mudskippers face off on wet mud, mouths agape and fins raised in a territorial display, their blue-spotted patterns catching the light. A vivid glimpse of the tidal flats of the Sundarbans – the world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest – where these fish walk, jump and breathe on land.Photograph: Ashok Behera/MPOTY
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Mudskippers in Awe!
Ashok Behera, India
Two mudskippers face off on wet mud, mouths agape and fins raised in a territorial display, their blue-spotted patterns catching the light. A vivid glimpse of the tidal flats of the Sundarbans – the world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest – where these fish walk, jump and breathe on land.Photograph: Ashok Behera/MPOTY
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Tangled Glow: When Life Meets the Ruins
Gaurav Patil, IndiaA ‘ghost’ fishing net glowing under ultraviolet light, tangled in a mangrove on the tide-swept shore of Nandgaon village, Maharashtra, south of Mumbai, has won this year’s Mangrove photography awards.
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Tangled Glow: When Life Meets the Ruins
Gaurav Patil, IndiaA ‘ghost’ fishing net glowing under ultraviolet light, tangled in a mangrove on the tide-swept shore of Nandgaon village, Maharashtra, south of Mumbai, has won this year’s Mangrove photography awards.
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Seeds of hope from a coastal village
Garry Lotulung, IndonesiaPasijah, 56, plants mangrove seedlings beside her flooded home in Bedono, Demak, Central Java — one of the last residents remaining after more than 200 families left as rising seas and land subsidence submerged the village. She’s planted mangroves since 2000, watching her family’s rice fields turn to ponds and then disappear.
Photograph: Garry Lotulung/MPOTY
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Seeds of hope from a coastal village
Garry Lotulung, IndonesiaPasijah, 56, plants mangrove seedlings beside her flooded home in Bedono, Demak, Central Java — one of the last residents remaining after more than 200 families left as rising seas and land subsidence submerged the village. She’s planted mangroves since 2000, watching her family’s rice fields turn to ponds and then disappear.
Photograph: Garry Lotulung/MPOTY
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Mangroves
Two Worlds, One Ecosystem
Jake Stout, CubaA split shot reveals the two often-overlooked halves of a mangrove ecosystem: the tangled roots above, and the seagrass bed below — a transitional nursery where juvenile fish shelter before graduating to nearby coral reefs. Photographed in Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina, a marine protected area since 1996, where strong protection has produced some of the Caribbean’s richest biodiversity.
Photograph: Jake Stout/MPOTY
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Mangroves
Two Worlds, One Ecosystem
Jake Stout, CubaA split shot reveals the two often-overlooked halves of a mangrove ecosystem: the tangled roots above, and the seagrass bed below — a transitional nursery where juvenile fish shelter before graduating to nearby coral reefs. Photographed in Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina, a marine protected area since 1996, where strong protection has produced some of the Caribbean’s richest biodiversity.
Photograph: Jake Stout/MPOTY
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Photo Competition Shines a Light on Mangrove Forests Around the World https://petapixel.com/2026/07/24/mangrove-photography-awards-2026/ #mangrovephotographyawards #naturephotography #photocompetition #Spotlight #mangroves #wildlife #News
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Photo Competition Shines a Light on Mangrove Forests Around the World https://petapixel.com/2026/07/24/mangrove-photography-awards-2026/ #mangrovephotographyawards #naturephotography #photocompetition #Spotlight #mangroves #wildlife #News
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"From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon"
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"From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon"
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#Florida's Hidden Gem: See #photos of Pan's Garden in #PalmBeach
by Meghan McCarthy, April 13, 2025
"The all-native botanical garden was established in 1994 by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach."
#SolarPunkSunday #SpendTimeInNature #BotannicalGardens #Mangroves #Wetlands #NativePlants #PansGarden #Bloomscrolling #Gardens
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#Florida's Hidden Gem: See #photos of Pan's Garden in #PalmBeach
by Meghan McCarthy, April 13, 2025
"The all-native botanical garden was established in 1994 by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach."
#SolarPunkSunday #SpendTimeInNature #BotannicalGardens #Mangroves #Wetlands #NativePlants #PansGarden #Bloomscrolling #Gardens
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Planting #mangroves to defend communities
A #MangroveRestoration program in northern #Mozambique aims to help protect the coastline from storms while supporting #OceanEcosystems, too.
by Winile Ximba, Jul 10, 2026
"The Indian Ocean coastline of northern Mozambique is a sandy flatland where palm tree forests dominate the interior whilst near the shore, mangrove trees line the mouths of the blue sea. Despite being the poorest part of the country, it’s an idyllic land of beauty where the biggest human populations prefer to live near the ocean for the ease of trade and to forage seafood resources.
"However, the region is facing significant effects from climate change, such as the super cyclone that hit the districts of Mecufi and Milamba in December 2024. Keeping land, livestock and vulnerable members of society from being swept away into the ocean hinges on wild plants: the mangrove in particular, says Josica Nada, a community leader and forestry activist in Mecufi. 'We are not planting mangrove plants out of eco-green fashion, but survival,' he says of what he calls his community’s 'heroics' in replanting a two-hectare coastal zone with mangrove plants in the past five years.
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"Now, a grassroots initiative – the Northern Mozambique Rural #Resilience Project (#NMRRP) – is taking shape in northern provinces. A key component of the NMRRP is the race to restore mangrove forest cover along the coastline ahead of the arrival of future megastorms."
Read more:
https://www.rewildingmag.com/planting-mangroves-to-defend-communities/#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #RewildingMagazine #MoreTrees #MoreForests #MangroveForests
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Planting #mangroves to defend communities
A #MangroveRestoration program in northern #Mozambique aims to help protect the coastline from storms while supporting #OceanEcosystems, too.
by Winile Ximba, Jul 10, 2026
"The Indian Ocean coastline of northern Mozambique is a sandy flatland where palm tree forests dominate the interior whilst near the shore, mangrove trees line the mouths of the blue sea. Despite being the poorest part of the country, it’s an idyllic land of beauty where the biggest human populations prefer to live near the ocean for the ease of trade and to forage seafood resources.
"However, the region is facing significant effects from climate change, such as the super cyclone that hit the districts of Mecufi and Milamba in December 2024. Keeping land, livestock and vulnerable members of society from being swept away into the ocean hinges on wild plants: the mangrove in particular, says Josica Nada, a community leader and forestry activist in Mecufi. 'We are not planting mangrove plants out of eco-green fashion, but survival,' he says of what he calls his community’s 'heroics' in replanting a two-hectare coastal zone with mangrove plants in the past five years.
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"Now, a grassroots initiative – the Northern Mozambique Rural #Resilience Project (#NMRRP) – is taking shape in northern provinces. A key component of the NMRRP is the race to restore mangrove forest cover along the coastline ahead of the arrival of future megastorms."
Read more:
https://www.rewildingmag.com/planting-mangroves-to-defend-communities/#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #RewildingMagazine #MoreTrees #MoreForests #MangroveForests
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'People may soon carry oxygen cylinders': Bombay HC warns over mangrove felling for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/bombay-hc-warns-mangrove-felling-bullet-train-project-mumbai-ahmedabad-eeixy50x?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BombayHC #BulletTrain #Environment #Mangroves #Mumbai
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Tide out at dusk, Nightcliff Bay
An amazing, ever-changing display of light, texture and mood as tide and weather constantly create whole new landscapes.
#TidesOutTuesday #ClassicMono #sepia
#photography #landscape #seascape #mangroves #TidalFlat #nature #art #gift #ECK -
Tide out at dusk, Nightcliff Bay
An amazing, ever-changing display of light, texture and mood as tide and weather constantly create whole new landscapes.
#TidesOutTuesday #ClassicMono #sepia
#photography #landscape #seascape #mangroves #TidalFlat #nature #art #gift #ECK -
Some hopeful news for our coastlines. A new study shows that mangrove forests are starting to recover and grow again. #mangroves
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For our seventh day in Costa Rica, I went kayaking with some of my family among mangroves.
Megan and I went for a walk on the beach.
We ate dinner at Agua Azule Cafe.
https://www.brentlineberry.com/posts/3983/costa-rica-day-seven-mangrove-kayaking
#Food #Walking #Kayaking #CostaRica #2026CostaRicaTrip #ManuelAntonioCostaRica #Bats #DamasIslandCostaRica #Mangroves #Anteaters
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For our seventh day in Costa Rica, I went kayaking with some of my family among mangroves.
Megan and I went for a walk on the beach.
We ate dinner at Agua Azule Cafe.
https://www.brentlineberry.com/posts/3983/costa-rica-day-seven-mangrove-kayaking
#Food #Walking #Kayaking #CostaRica #2026CostaRicaTrip #ManuelAntonioCostaRica #Bats #DamasIslandCostaRica #Mangroves #Anteaters
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Mangrove forests are rebounding globally, protecting shorelines, supporting wildlife, and storing carbon—demonstrating nature's resilience.
Read more: https://www.earth.com/news/mangrove-forests-are-making-a-surprising-global-comeback/
#GoodNews #Nature #Mangroves #Conservation #Climate #Biodiversity
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Mangrove forests are rebounding globally, protecting shorelines, supporting wildlife, and storing carbon—demonstrating nature's resilience.
Read more: https://www.earth.com/news/mangrove-forests-are-making-a-surprising-global-comeback/
#GoodNews #Nature #Mangroves #Conservation #Climate #Biodiversity
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📰 Mangrove Forests Are Now NET INCREASING Globally After Decades of Loss
💪The increase is due to stronger legal protections and increased public awareness of their importance.
🐟There have been restoration efforts (some reported by me) in recent decades that have helped recovery, but the big change has come from the trees not being chopped down 🤦, allowing for natural (i.e. low cost) expansion.
🌊 Awareness has been built from painful experience, such as when the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 wiped out islands in Indonesia - the ones that were not covered in mangroves. 🌊🌊🌊
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-global-mangrove-forests-rebound-climate.html
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📰 Mangrove Forests Are Now NET INCREASING Globally After Decades of Loss
💪The increase is due to stronger legal protections and increased public awareness of their importance.
🐟There have been restoration efforts (some reported by me) in recent decades that have helped recovery, but the big change has come from the trees not being chopped down 🤦, allowing for natural (i.e. low cost) expansion.
🌊 Awareness has been built from painful experience, such as when the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 wiped out islands in Indonesia - the ones that were not covered in mangroves. 🌊🌊🌊
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-global-mangrove-forests-rebound-climate.html
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How the world’s voracious appetite for shrimp is destroying Ecuador’s mangroves https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/19/world-appetite-shrimp-destroying-ecuador-mangroves
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