Please join us all on 26 July 2010 for the Annual Call On Mangrove Action Day!

MAP staff and volunteers based in the Seattle area will be talking with consumers about the problems of shrimp farming worldwide. We will be promoting our "Question Your Shrimp" Consumer Awareness Campaign, which aims to promote the goal of halving the per capita annual consumption of shrimp in the USA from 4.4 lbs. to the level it was ten years ago of 2.2 lbs. per person consumed.annually. This reduction in demand will result in a great reduction in shrimp farm expansion into mangrove and related coastal wetland sites, which is a main objective of our Question Your Shrimp Campaign!

What will you or your organization be doing on this day? We are now collecting news about other planned events to commemorate the global call for action for the Mangroves that your organization is organizing for 26 July.

Please write us to share your own plans for this international day for the mangroves!

MAP wishes to lend our full support to the plans and actions of all our network members for Global Action on 26 July 2010. We ask that you and/or your organizations please join us all in a global protest against the ongoing losses of the mangrove forest ecosystems and the local communities that depend upon the mangrovess for their lives and livelihoods. Please send us your regional or local plans for actions that are meant to commemorate this international Day for the Mangroves! We would like to again share your plans and ideas with our global network. We look forward to hearing from you soon in this regard!