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India’s latest forest cover report hints at countrywide degradation

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
Members of the El Delgadito fishing community planting red mangroves.

After trial and error, Mexican fishers find key to reforesting a mangrove haven

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2024

Golden jackals thrive in mangroves of Indian megacity Mumbai: Study

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2024
A shipbreaking yard.

Shipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts

Lyse Mauvais, Wouter Massink 17 Dec 2024

Communities warn of threat to ecosystems from Brazil bridge project

Lobato Felizola 12 Dec 2024
Jenebora fishers say commercial ships anchoring in fishing grounds have squeezed local catches.

Construction of Indonesia’s new capital sees port activity crowd out fishers

Yudha Almerio 10 Dec 2024
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing? Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024
Restoring the abandoned rice fields required breaking up earthen dykes and clearing channels to restore natural water flow, so that mangroves seedlings and propagules could naturally recolonize the areas. In instances seedlings are also planted to help natural regeneration. Image by Wetlands International & Beyond Borders Media

How a holistic approach aims to heal mangroves in Guinea-Bissau

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Nov 2024
Syafi'i catching shellfish in the waters of the Malacca Strait.

As Sumatra loses mangroves to oil palms, local fishers also suffer

Ayat S. Karokaro 25 Nov 2024
Boats of Tangerang's fishermen, who are starting to have difficulty going to sea.

An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded

Irfan Maulana 8 Nov 2024
Shrimp caught in the wild.

Indonesia fisheries minister eyes aquaculture expansion under Prabowo

M Ambari 6 Nov 2024

Marshes are cost-effective for protecting coasts: Study  

Bobby Bascomb 31 Oct 2024
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Tiger population census in Bangladesh shows a hopeful upward trend in the Sundarbans

Abu Siddique 17 Oct 2024
Mangroves in Thailand

Thailand’s budding mangrove restoration plans spark both hope and concern

Carolyn Cowan 17 Oct 2024
A red ghost crab in Teknaf.

The disappearing red ghost crabs of Cox’s Bazar, a conservation crisis in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Oct 2024

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024
In five years since the 2018-19 fiscal, Khulna, Bagerhat, and Satkhira districts recorded increased production of Aman rice. Image courtesy of BARCIK

Coastal farmers in Bangladesh give up shrimp farming for agriculture to combat salinity

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Oct 2024
A dugong.

Cambodian fishers-turned-citizen scientists monitor marine mammal deaths

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Oct 2024

S. Korea dune merchant, 72, held over sand mining in Indonesia mangrove forest

Wahyu Chandra 30 Sep 2024
A loggerhead turtle hatchling on Al-Mansouri beach.

Amid haze of war, Lebanese activists helped turtle hatchlings journey to sea

Amélie David 25 Sep 2024
Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Image by Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

NGOs raise concerns over oil exploration in Republic of Congo national park

Didier Makal 24 Sep 2024
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Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis.

Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis

Basten Gokkon, Nanang Sujana, Sandy Watt 16 Sep 2024

Wildlife-rich mangroves suffer as Indonesia ramps up construction of new capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2024
A school of barracuda in Papua New Guinea.

Not merely ‘exploration’: PNG deep-sea mining riles critics & surprises officials

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2024

UK aid agency investing $35m in controversial DRC port

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024
Women in the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve fish for crabs on the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern Brazil.

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Sarah Brown 19 Aug 2024

Sri Lanka’s blue carbon ecosystems at risk as government seeks way out of economic crisis

Malaka Rodrigo 16 Aug 2024
Entrepreneur Namita Mondal is watering mangrove saplings at her nursery.

In the Sundarbans, women are embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Aug 2024
Lalao Aigrette conducts mangrove inventory training with coastal community members. Photo courtesy of Lalao Aigrette.

50 years of data show that Madagascar’s mangroves are making a comeback

Darren Incorvaia 14 Aug 2024
Gisele Martin, Hayden Seitcher, and Hughie Watts from Tseshaht nation — blessing the garden, carrying out a small ceremony to honor the land and ocean to ensure the garden's success and to respect their traditions.

On Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth

Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024

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