MAP Action Alerts http://mangroveactionproject.org daily 1 2007-04-09T18:20:24Z Save the Sundarbans - Stop The Phulbari Coal Mine http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/save-the-sundarbans-stop-the-phulbari-coal-mine The Phulbari Coal Mine Project would establish one of the world’s largest open pit coal mines in northwest Bangladesh, forcibly displacing as many as 130,000 people, including more than 2,200 indigenous households. No publisher juliec 2012-04-11T21:46:41Z News Item Request for Support to Protect Bimini Island http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/request-for-support-to-protect-bimini-island No publisher juliec 2012-04-02T21:49:08Z News Item We Don't Want Your Blood-Stained Prawns http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/we-dont-want-your-blood-stained-prawns Spain, France and Italy are the major importers of prawns farmed in the tropics – an unsustainable industry which causes poverty and armed conflicts. No publisher juliec 2012-03-29T22:46:15Z News Item Brazil's Mangroves In Peril If New Legislation Passes http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/brazils-mangroves-in-peril-if-new-legislation-passes No publisher juliec 2012-03-23T20:19:50Z News Item REEF RESCUE ACTION ALERT http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/reef-rescue-action-alert This years attempt by the Florida legislature to never let a good deed go unpunished is a renewed attack on the 2008 ocean outfall bill that outlaws the archaic practice of dumping 396,000,000 gallons a day of inadequately treated sewage into the coastal waters of southeast Florida. No publisher juliec 2012-03-29T21:48:43Z News Item Stop Exploitative Land Transformations in Mozambique http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/stop-exploitative-land-transformations-in-mozambique No publisher juliec 2012-01-17T19:32:10Z News Item Act Now to Protect the Mekong http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/act-now-to-protect-the-mekong No publisher juliec 2011-12-27T22:56:49Z News Item Shrimp Farming – An Ecological and Social Disaster http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/shrimp-farming-2013-an-ecological-and-social-disaster No publisher juliec 2011-10-10T22:43:40Z News Item Kenya and the World Stand Against Plans for Second Port http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/kenya-and-the-world-stand-against-plans-for-second-port No publisher juliec 2012-02-11T01:22:37Z News Item Washington State Residents - Help Halt Fish Farming in Our Coastal Waters http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/washington-state-residents-help-halt-fish-farming-in-our-coastal-waters No publisher juliec 2011-08-02T17:23:45Z News Item Updated Information - Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue "Standards" Create Concern - Your Comments Are Needed http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/shrimp-aquaculture-dialogue-standards-create-concern-your-comments-are-needed Faulty standards are being readied to hand over to the newly formed Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) sometime after April. We feel the situation is rather urgent, and urge our members and associates to send their own comments stating your concerns about the shrimp standards setting process and its ill-derived standards to Corey Peet, who is the new executive director of the Shrimp Aquaculture "Dialogue." No publisher juliec 2012-01-10T21:29:48Z News Item Oldest Rainforest in the World to Become a Palm Oil Plantation http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/oldest-rainforest-in-the-world-to-become-a-palm-oil-plantation No publisher juliec 2011-06-27T18:05:07Z News Item Defend Honduran Environmental Efforts http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/defend-honduran-environmental-efforts No publisher juliec 2011-06-20T21:18:29Z News Item Proposed Rail-line in the Adjacent Areas of the Sundarbans http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/proposed-rail-line-in-the-adjacent-areas-of-the-sundarbans Recently, from some of the daily newspapers, we have come to know that the Government of Bangladesh is going to set up rail-line from Navaran of Jessore District to Munshiganj of Satkhira District which is very adjacent to the Sundarbans. According to the news, there are deep forests and shrimp farms on the designed rail-line and hundreds of the mangrove trees will be subjected to clear-cut for installation of the infrastructures. The news also said that the wildlife may be hampered due to high decimal sound of the railway and environment and ecology will be threatened for regular operation of the rail coaches. No publisher juliec 2011-02-22T22:07:40Z News Item Save India’s Olive Ridley Sea Turtles from New Port Construction http://mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/save-india2019s-olive-ridley-sea-turtles-from-new-port-construction The construction of a proposed port along one of India’s critical Olive Ridley nesting beaches jeopardizes the future of this unique sea turtle population. The South Korean steel maker POSCO plans to construct the port at Jatadhar in Orissa that would introduce bright lights, massive vessels, and consistent dredging into sensitive habitat for these threatened sea turtles No publisher juliec 2012-01-10T21:34:44Z News Item