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Mangroves protect coastlines, reduce flooding and storm damage, nurture wildlife, feed people, lock carbon, filter pollution and look beautiful

Mangroves protect coastlines, reduce flooding and storm damage, nurture wildlife, feed people, lock carbon, filter pollution and look beautiful

  1. Coastal ecosystems like mangroves & coral reefs protect 100–300 million people living within coastal flood zones by absorbing 🌊 energy & storm surges. Our partner spotlights the reasons why mangroves reduce disaster risks.

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  2. #6 How mangroves prevent coastal erosion 💚 :

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  3. 6. stu 2019.

    Mangroves are more important than rain forests.

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  4. "Mangroves are this incredibly productive ecosystem. They also store astonishingly large amounts of carbon." How helps coastal communities access the carbon market to monetize mangrove protection

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  5. Mangroves are capable of sequestering large amounts of atmospheric carbon. Cutting mangroves, however, would result to the release of sequestered carbon back to the atmosphere. Fight climate change by protecting our mangroves!

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  6. 7. stu 2019.
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  7. Mangroves are one of the world’s best coastal defenses against hurricanes. And as hurricanes intensify from the effects of climate change, saving mangroves means saving lives when strong storms hit.

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  8. #7 True That! (Picture from the Mangrove Action Project. Donate here!)

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  9. 4. stu 2019.

    fact for your day: While they eat a mainly green diet of vegetation like mangroves and seagrass, these marine mammals consume about 10% of their body weight in food each day. Now that's what we call a major love for salads! 🥗

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  10. Did You Know? #1 • Mangroves serve as the nurseries of the ocean. Baby fish take refuge among the tangled roots and are allowed the opportunity to grow and survive. • Mangroves also are home to various nesting birds! • Sponges, shrimp, anemones, and more coat the roots!

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  11. 3. stu 2019.

    Buffy Fish Owl. This chap has been the local one-eyed jack for many years and seems to get by just fine. Occasionally his partner is around too. This is his day time roost, he moves into the mangroves to feed at night.

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  12. 31. lis 2019.

    Congrats to for the initiatives towards elevating the importance of nature-based solutions like seagrasses and mangroves in crafting and enforcing meaningful Nationally Determined Contributions! via

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  13. 2. stu 2019.

    Reflections of breakfast in the South Florida mangroves. Have a great weekend everyone.

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  14. 1. stu 2019.

    Hey ! I found these guys snorkeling along mangroves recently. I think they’re Cassiopea jellyfish?

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  15. Funded by , our mangrove conservation project empowers women in south east Sierra Leone through sustainable oyster harvesting - helping women to achieve financial independence, protecting the mangroves and providing a sustainable alternative to bush-meat and logging.

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  16. Marine iguanas use just their tail to propel themselves through the water. They keep driving onward that way even when they run aground in the mud of the mangroves. Isabela Island, Galapagos

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  17. 30. lis 2019.
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  18. Did you know that juvenile smalltooth use shallow, warm waters in close proximity to mangroves for nursery habitat? I observed this juvenile in less than 1-foot of water! Protecting habitat is one way that we can help !!

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  19. 23. lis 2019.

    Mangroves support rich biodiversity, but did you know they supply enough seafood to feed millions of people?

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  20. 23. lis 2019.

    How do mangroves trap sediments and fight coastal erosion? This simple photo shows that. That's why, mangroves must be protected to avoid loss of coastal lands. in and we must protect them.

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  21. Here I am I my natural habitat with another strangely bearded animal. HER beard is more attractive than mine, mine is forced upon me due to work. Behold the Borneo bearded pig and her piglet child. They live in mangroves and forests all over Borneo and o…

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