Mangrove News Digest # 640 – Dec. 27, 2025
Space company to dump 500,000mn gal of wastewater per day into Indian River Lagoon
USA – Residents fear environmental damage to fragile ecosystem home to 4,300 species; petition launched to stop the permit.
Rita of the Sundarbans
BANGLADESH – MAP’s new video released. In coastal Bangladesh, communities living beside the Sundarbans depend on healthy mangrove forests for food, protection, and their way of life.
Mangrove Restoration and Livelihoods in the Sundarbans
BANGLADESH – MAP’s second newly released video. This film highlights a project supported by the Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature (OCEAN) Grants Programme, which funds community-led approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems.
Roots of Resilience: The Women Preserving Asia’s Ancient Mangrove Forest
BANGLADESH – Local collectives in the Sundarbans are leading the charge to restore a vital marine ecosystem.
Their husbands were killed by tigers. Now these women are restoring the big cat’s habitat
BANGLADESH – They are called “swami khejos”— which translates as “husband eaters” in Bengali — which prevents these widows from traditional occupations like farming and fishing.
Guardians of the Mangroves
INDIA – How women crab farmers along India’s coast have linked their livelihoods to environmental conservation.
Preserving mangroves in the Solomon Islands
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Solomon Islands, home to 12 percent of the world’s mangrove forests, plays a crucial role in the global fight against mangrove loss.
ACTION ALERTS
Stop Blue Origin from Dumping Wastewater Into Indian River Lagoon
Rights for Stingless Bees – sign now
Save the Sanctuary: Keep Gulper Shark Fisheries Closed
Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Brazil’s Tauá-Mirim! Sign Now
NO TO PUERTO BARU – Panama’s Mangroves Under Threat! sign the petition.
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