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When you visit the nature reserves at the Golden Bay Mangrove Park, you may notice tiny green fruits among the foliage. The enterprising Beihai gourmet loves these. The fruits hide several coin-like ...

Timor-Leste's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment has launched a joint effort to tackle coastal abrasion by restoring about twelve hectares of mangroves which were damaged by El-Nino or cut ...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has managed to plant 50 rai of mangrove forest to stem coastal erosion in Bang Khunthian district, according to Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang. The ...

Demand for firewood in recent years led to the depletion of the mangrove forest in the Indonesian village of Paremas. But the local government and NGOs worked with the community to emphasize the ...

Aziil Anwar, a civil servant turned award-winning mangrove restorer, has died from diabetes-related complications. Aziil gained prominence in the 1990s by pioneering a way to boost the success of ...

Sri Lanka’s pioneering nationwide programme to save its damaged mangrove forests is bearing fruit a year on, prompting the US conservation group backing it to look for another island country to launch ...

The project by Kolkata Society for Cultural Heritage is aimed at preserving the ecology as well as generating income for people of the area Women create a bed of soil and sand for the mangrove ...

Pemba — Before two years ago, things were not all well that for Makoongwe and Ndogani villagers on Pemba Island for the Indian Ocean water was troubling their livelihoods. Their lands weren't better ...