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What Will it Take to Restore the Mangroves?

Posted on September 04, 2008

This article was written by Emily Gertz in December 2004. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.Coastal forests are key to preventing future disasters and restoring life and livelihood around the Indian OceanA half-century ago, if you approached a point on the shore along the rim of Indian Ocean, you probably would have come upon endless acres of mangroves. Swampy rainforests hugging the edges of both land and sea, Indo-Pacific mangroves are storehouses of biodiversity, home to the world's richest variety of salt-tolerant trees, ferns, and shrubs. Hundred...

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