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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INDONESIA - BANGKOK - Des systèmes d'alerte anti-tsunami ont été installés dans de nombreux pays asiatiques, cinq ans après la...

BANGLADESH - Un an après le passage du cyclone Sidr au Bangladesh, les 1 500 km² de mangroves de Sundarbans dévastées se régénèrent...

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DEBATES

Coastal carbon sinks are shrinking

New Scientist

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

Mangrove forests: threats

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

FOCUS

-Wetland

For a long time, they were regarded by mankind as sterile, unhealthy, even dangerous places. Now, however, it is understood that wetlands are home to amazing ecosystems and a biological diversity that is almost beyond compare. Whether they take the form of salt marshes,...

VIDEOS

28/11/2009	La population indonésienne qui tire ses ressources de la mer et du...	09/04/2009	Au Yucatan, le tourisme et l'urbanisation sauvage menacent un équilibre...
05/03/2009	Ce documentaire, réalisé par la Croix rouge, montre les bénéfices sociaux...

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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