Mangrove

ISSUES

Mangrove Forests

Mangroves are odd coastal plant formations—rich in silt, salt, and humidity—which develop in intertidal areas (under tidal influence). The mangrove—symbolic—dominates the mangrove ecosystem. There are few other plant species in these tidal balance areas: these environments are anoxic, the ground is unstable, and the salinity variable.
Lining the coasts of a little less than a hundred countries, the largest areas are located in Indonesia (34,931 km2), followed by Brazil (10,124 km2), Nigeria (9,977 km2), Australia (9,553 km2 in 1997), India (6,700 km2), Malaysia (6,424 km2), and Bangladesh (6,225 km2).

NEWS

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SWITZERLAND - GENÈVE - L'appauvrissement de la biodiversité devient une tendance quasiment irréversible alors que l'objectif, fixé en...

COSTA RICA - The boom in construction projects on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica is threatening biodiversity and compromising the...

INDONESIA - Indonesia’s mangrove forest area has shrunk from 4.2 million hectares in 1982 to 2 million hectares, according to an...

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DEBATES

Coastal carbon sinks are shrinking

New Scientist

Shrimp Farming

During the course of the last few decades, shrimp farming...

Mangrove forests: threats

Mangrove forests are one of the world’s most threatened...

FOCUS

-Les mangroves, une richesse trop longtemps ignorée

We have tended in the past to regard mangrove swamps as being of little use to humans. They occupy muddy coastlines in tropical regions, tend to be infested with mosquitoes, and are easily flooded by the sea or...

VIDEOS

15/06/2010	Oil spill specialist Rick Steiner accompanies a media team to Cat and Bird...	02/06/2010	What are and will be the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the...
29/04/2010	Tai Butani is the only person left in Lomawai village who continues to...	28/11/2009	La population indonésienne qui tire ses ressources de la mer et du...

GREEN TIPS

Vegetalized barriers against the tsunami

From 2006 to 2007, the government of Tamil Nadu, a state at India’s land’s end (in the south-east) and the...

INDICATORS

Forest cover
Biocapacity
National biodiversity index
Threatened ecosystems
Protected areas

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