Mangroves play a crucial role in fish nurseries and protecting tropical coastal ecosystems. Were it not for these salty forests, many of the world’s coral reefs and their communities of rainbow ...

GAZI BAY, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For fishing communities on Kenya's southern coast, felling mangrove trees to make boats has long been a part of life. But traditional attitudes toward ...

The first of the exhibits, Mangroves, will introduce frogs, lizards, crustaceans and other swamp dwelling marine creatures to the Aquarium, including the Barramundi and the prehistoric Lungfish, and ...

The harvesting of mangrove forests in West Africa for the smoked fish trade threatens to undermine the primary source of income for the very fishermen who supply fish to the market, reports a study ...

Maharashtra has become the first state in India to undertake forensic timber identification of mangrove tree species for enhanced conservation of the salt-tolerant coastal trees. Stem and branch wood ...

In Cameroon, extensive mangrove systems provide an abundance to the communities that surround them. From firewood to fish, communities have depended on mangroves, locally known as matanda, for years.

Ali Salim, the chairman of Mikoko Pamoja (Mangroves Together), a community mangrove protection project in Gazi Bay, Kenya, shows some of the growth in the community mangrove forest. TRF/Moraa Obiria ...