A recent forest inventory in Zanzibar reveals the decline in the volume of mangrove forest, dropping from 41 cubic metres to ...

But a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) shows that governments and coastal communities around the world are now moving increasingly fast towards ending ...

Turning the tide on the deforestation of mangroves involves raising awareness -- at global, national and local community levels -- that they are part of a country's forest assets. It involves ...

“We are seeing a lot of mangrove deforestation, so that might cancel a lot of expansion that we’re seeing,” said Cheryl Doughty, a wetlands ecologist at Villanova and lead author on the stud ...

Renewing mangroves and beach forests could protect Philippines coast from typhoons, storms, floods and land erosion.

Mangroves are under serious threat in Nigeria, especially across the Niger Delta region. These unique trees particularly in the coastal areas of Bayelsa State act as shields against flooding, habitat ...

Since the turn of the millennium, global mangrove deforestation has slowed as well, hovering between a loss of 0.2 and 0.7 percent per year, says a 2020 study in Scientific Reports. Mikoko Pamoja ...

Nature-based carbon credit projects ensure that a forest or mangrove that is at risk of being cut down remains standing. In doing so, emissions from the impending deforestation are prevented from ...

Now, the situation has changed. Large-scale residential settlements have been established along the coast of the city, leading to the deforestation of mangroves. As a result, areas like Ibrahim ...

The report also highlighted areas where mangrove landscapes were still under threat of massive deforestation. The report by WWF proposed that in order to stop mangrove destruction along the ...

Similarly, deforestation for fuel is the biggest threat to mangroves in Madagascar too. Mozambique lost more than 6% of its mangrove cover in the last 20 years, mainly due to the extraction of ...

Turning the tide on the deforestation of mangroves involves raising awareness – at global, national and local community levels– that they are part of a country's forest assets. It involves ...