Friends of Redmanglar International and the mangrove ecosystem
July 26 is coming, the International Day for Mangrove Protection, so we took the oportunity to launch and share with you this year’s motto:
“YES MANGROVES, NO SHRIMP PONDS!”
We reaffirm our opposition to the one industry that is most destructive to and that negatively impacts the mangrove ecosystem.
Since many years, communities and traditional mangrove users, as well as social and environmental organizations, have seen with great concern the faulty processes that intend to certify industrial shrimp as responsible aquaculture.
Industrial shrimp farming is responsible for the loss of mangroves and other coastal ecosystems, for the destruction and degradation of livelihoods of local communities and traditional users of mangroves, criminalization and violation of human rights, loss of food sovereignty, and loss of natural buffers against climate change.
