According to a wetlands report carried out in 2008, mangroves in the Pacific cover an area of around 597,000 hectares. Fiji has around 42,000 ha of mangrove forest. The Global Mangrove Alliance target ...

Wetlands (mangroves, sea grasses and marshes) are recognised as some of the most effective plant carbon sinks - some studies quote they suck up to ten times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...

Mangroves are on the move, and scientists are tracking their surprising advance into new northern territory. Just as John ...

The district, known for its 74 km coastline, 405 sq km of forest cover, and 67.97 sq km of mangrove forest, is home to a rich ...

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal ... deltas and tidal flats, mangroves and other coastal areas, coral ...

574ha area now known as Setiu Wetlands State Park is a group of local volunteers. Sahabat Setiu chairman Azmi Omar, 57, said he had been involved in various programmes to plant mangrove trees and ...

SOME 100 employees of ExxonMobil subsidiaries in Malaysia spent an evening recently planting 1,000 mangrove saplings along a coastal stretch in Kampung Balak in Port Dickson to create awareness on ...

Officers from various organisations at the Coast planted 500 mangrove seedlings to mark World ... Migori has a mini fish processing plant in Rongo which has been leased to Rio fish, a body that ...

"I started planting new mangroves when I stopped doing illegal activities in 2011," he said, proudly pointing out a baby mangrove he helped plant along the water ... The reserve was designated in ...

a protected mangrove area and Ramsar site on the Amazonian coast. Researchers and local Quilombola residents fear the port will impact the area’s protected wetlands and cause a disturbance to ...