LibGuides: Oceans: Mangroves

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Why Our Ocean Could Hold the Best Solutions to Climate Change
As human activities have significantly increased greenhouse gas emissions, the ocean has moderated the effects, absorbing more than 90% of excess heat and approximately 30% of excess carbon emissions, sparing us from the extreme impacts we would otherwise experience on Earth.
Mangroves
Protecting and restoring quite possibly the most important ecosystem on Earth.
Sri Lanka Prime Minister: Mangroves Curb Climate Threat
Sri Lanka's prime minister has said mangroves' ability to swiftly absorb carbon make the forests vital in the fight against climate change.
Mangroves and Incomes Flourish as Sri Lanka's Women Promote Conservation - in pictures
A new project in Sri Lanka offers training and loans to women to start sustainable businesses as an alternative to cutting mangroves, and commits them to help replant degraded areas of the mangrove forests.
What's a Mangrove and How does it Work?
If you've ever spent time by the sea in a tropical place, you've probably noticed distinctive trees that rise from a tangle of roots wriggling out of the mud...
Forest too Precious for Houseing
Opinion piece
Thailand Mangrove Froest
Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics.

Bang Pu: Thailand's First Urban Nature Education Center
One of the last remnant patches of mangrove in the Gulf of Thailand, protected within the Royal ThaiArmy Recreation and Convalescence Centre at Bang Pu in Samut Prakan Province, was developed
as Thailand’s rst urban nature education centre in partnership by the Royal Thai Army, WWF–Thailand and the corporate sector.

Mangrove Conservation and Use
Mangrove ecosystems are under threat from a changing set of pressures.
The Global Mangrove Alliance: Uniting to Conserve and Restore Valuable Coastal Forests
Mangrove forests are some of the world’s most valuable coastal ecosystems—and they’re being destroyed at an alarming rate.