Mangrove News Digest # 627 – June 28, 2025
Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
BRAZIL – The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Since 2003, local communities have called for the area to be designated a Reserva Extrativista (RESEX), a type of protected area that ensures both conservation and traditional rights. However, the government has delayed action, playing into the hands of destructive “developers” in the meantime. Please support our petition.
Restoring Kenya’s coastal mangroves: The work of the Munje Tunusuru Women’s Group
KENYA – These women were not scientists or government officials. They were mothers, farmers, fishers, and daughters, yet they saw what others had overlooked: that their degraded mangrove forests held the key to both environmental protection and community survival.
To save a dying forest, this town dug in
MEXICO – Off Mexico’s Yucatán coast, a road connects a small fishing community’s slender islet to the mainland. On one side of the road sits a healthy mangrove forest teeming with wildlife. On the other side of the road: bare dirt, pocked with patchy stands of mangrove trees.
Children Become “Little Guardians of the Mangrove” in Naranjal
ECUADOR – With laughter, curiosity, and their feet in the mangrove mud, students were part of an initiative that connected children, teachers, and mothers with one of the most valuable and threatened ecosystems in the region: the mangroves of the Macizo del Cajas Biosphere Reserve.
Global warming exacerbates the risk of habitat loss for regional mangrove species
CHINA – This study focused on two dominant mangrove species in the northern margin of the South China Sea: Kandelia obovata and Avicennia marina. We employed species distribution models to simulate the distribution areas of these two species and their habitat changes under global warming scenarios.
Mangroves can quickly recover carbon lost to climate extremes
USA – South Florida’s sprawling mangrove forests have long been viewed as vulnerable to the growing punch of hurricanes intensified by climate change. New research from the Yale School of the Environment shows that Everglades mangroves can replace all the carbon they lose to powerful storms in just a handful of years.
When mangroves hold the line: Community resilience in Colombia’s Seaflower UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
COLUMBIA – In November 2020, Hurricane Iota struck Colombia’s Providencia Island, damaging over 90% of its infrastructure. Amid the devastation, one natural defense stood strong: The mangrove forest at Jones Point. The UNESCO MangRes project is bringing together local organizations and communities with the technical expertise of universities and research centers to restore this essential ecosystem.
ACTION ALERTS
Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Brazil’s Tauá-Mirim! Sign Now
URGENT NOTICE – Panama’s Mangroves Under Threat! sign the petition.
Keep Deutsche Bahn out of Amazonia!
Fight the Marine Bitumen Spill
Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil in Ecuador
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