#mangroves — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mangroves, aggregated by home.social.
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Today is #InternationalDayofCleanAir and #Indonesia is battling once in a century #wildfires, occuring due to El Nino and #ClimateChange. Destruction of #mangroves for #palmoil is cooking the planet and killing everyone. There is another way - #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/everything-is-covered-in-ash-indonesia-wildfires-leave-people-in-crisis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
Women in The Gambia are restoring mangroves around Banjul, planting trees that support local livelihoods while helping shield the island capital from erosion and flooding.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/6/how-gambian-women-are-restoring-the-mangroves-protecting-banjul#GoodNews #Mangroves #Conservation #ClimateResilience #TheGambia
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Women in The Gambia are restoring mangroves around Banjul, planting trees that support local livelihoods while helping shield the island capital from erosion and flooding.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/6/how-gambian-women-are-restoring-the-mangroves-protecting-banjul#GoodNews #Mangroves #Conservation #ClimateResilience #TheGambia
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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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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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🌱 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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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 -
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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A split-surface over-under photograph by Renee Capozzola captures a traditional outrigger canoe floating above a thriving coral reef. In the top half, a person wearing a bright, colorful sarong sits aboard the wooden canoe on calm, sunlit water, with dense green mangrove forests lining the shore under a bright blue sky.
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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)."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4pk07npvvoArchived version:
https://archive.ph/EX19Y#SolarPunkSunday #FishNurseries #Mangroves #RestoreNature #CoastalRewilding #RestoringMangroves
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4-Jun-2026
Global #mangroveForests rebound, offering hopeful sign for #climate and #coastal #resiliencehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130248
#science #mangroves #ecology #environment #climateCatastrophe
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"The shipworms are many things at once. They have carried different names — from maritime menace to indigenous delicacy to scientific marvel — yet none alone captures their multitude."
Crystal Chow for The Contrapuntal: https://thecontrapuntal.com/are-these-clams-key-to-climate-adaptation
#Longreads #ClimateChange #Clams #MarineLife #Philippines #Science #Mangroves #Research #Seafood
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How do researchers explore the center of dense mangrove forests without being eaten by crocodiles?
#mangroves #mangroveforests #ecology #researchers #botanicalresearch #crocodiles #crocodileattacks #forests #earthexploration #forestry #wetlands #ecology -
A #Seychelles Shoreline Resists the Rising Seas https://eos.org/articles/a-seychelles-shoreline-resists-the-rising-seas
"#Mangroves on the atoll were harvested until it became a protected site in the 1970s. Since then, the shoreline of one of the atoll’s islands, Picard, has accreted up to 161m as flourishing #MangroveForests trap and retain sediment... #Aldabra’s resilience to #SeaLevelRise is likely linked to its high protection status"
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The Importance of #Mangroves
#Florida mangroves provide protection from #storms, nurseries for #wildlife and recreation for people.
May 04, 2020 | Last updated April 05, 2023
Threats to #MangroveForests
"Unfortunately, there are many challenges that place mangrove forests under threat. Human impact such as #dredging, #filling, #WaterPollution from #herbicides and #development can lead to mangrove erosion and #HabitatDestruction. When mangrove forests are cleared and destroyed, they release massive amounts of #CarbonDioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to #ClimateChange."
#Hurricanes #HumanDevelopment #Florida #Overdevelopment #ProtectTheWetlands #ProtectMangroveForests
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'The vanishing #mangroves of #ElSalvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’
In #BarraDeSantiago, local people are struggling to save one of the few remaining #MangroveForests, as they are lost to agriculture and urban sprawl'
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/sep/05/mangroves-el-salvador-forests
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Mangrove restoration (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Mangrove restoration is the regeneration of mangrove forest ecosystems in areas where they have previously existed. Restoration can be defined as "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed." Mangroves can be found throughout coasta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_restoration
#MangroveRestoration #Mangroves #Bioremediation #LandscapeEcology #ConservationBiology #EcologicalRestoration
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@Fanua @thecrobe @BlippyTheWonderSlug
Ok, as threatened, here are some more #BatsOfMastodon #batstodonQuality is variable, mostly tending to poor (low light, ISO noise, motion blur, all synonyms for amateur photographer).
However I can promise a few shots you've probably never seen before, one capturing IN ONE FRAME, ladies and gentlemen, a bat, a Currawong, a giraffe, a zebra, a human, and a Bus Zone sign.
Also the Bat v. Currawong aerial duel.
Plus some close encounters of the chiropteric kind.
I'll thread these up.
#photography #bats #chiroptera #nature #currawong #birds #mangroves #nightcliff #BrisbaneRiver
