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- Read more about Manifest for Brazilian mangrovesNewsletter
Manifest for Brazilian mangroves
Recent amendments to Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) threatens the country’s status as the second largest mangrove area in the world…
- Read more about 750,000 mangrovesNewsletter
750,000 mangroves
Recently, we posted an article in our newsletter (MAP News #305) regarding an attempt to break a record by planting…
- Read more about MAP News Issue 305, Jan. 5th, 2013Newsletter
MAP News Issue 305, Jan. 5th, 2013
VerticalResponse The MAP News 305th Edition Jan. 5, 2013 Action Alerts: Action Alert – Gifting Deadline Extended -…
- Read more about MAP-Asia Utilizes Soil Excavator to Establish New Mangrove HabitatNewsletter
MAP-Asia Utilizes Soil Excavator to Establish New Mangrove Habitat
By Marc Flegel, MAP-Asia Volunteer Intern from GermanyFor the first time MAP-Asia is using the help of heavy machinery in…
- Read more about MAP News Issue 304 Dec. 22, 2012Newsletter
MAP News Issue 304 Dec. 22, 2012
VerticalResponse Partnering with mangrove forest communities, grassroots NGOs, researchers and local governments to conserve and restore mangrove forests and…
- Read more about Letter of Deep Concern for Human Rights Violations in EcuadorNewsletter
Letter of Deep Concern for Human Rights Violations in Ecuador
TO: Mr Xavier Ponce, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries, EcuadorEmail: ministro@magap.gob.ec …
- Read more about “Cry of a Warrior” Poem based on Nazaré´s struggle on the Isles of Sirinhaém – by Plácido JuniorNewsletter
“Cry of a Warrior” Poem based on Nazaré´s struggle on the Isles of Sirinhaém – by Plácido Junior
I felt the weight of the State on me I felt the weight of the Judiciary on me I felt the weight of the bitter-not-sweet sugar-cane agribusiness on me At times, the weight of the Cross bore down on me. What wrong did I do? Is it because I belong to the fisherfolk? Is it because I was born without a title deed on free-hold land? Is it because I just couldn´t abide seeing the wee fish, the crabs and the shrimps killed-by-stenching-stillage of the Sugar Mill which I have to denounce withoutrest? Why do they want to evict me and my sister from the islands, just as they evicted the other fifty-one families who lived here? Why do they want to destroy our roots? Why do they want to land-less us, water-less us? Do you not know that a fish doesn´t live without water and neither do we, away from the mangrove? …
- Read more about MAP intern’s Narration of First Field TripNewsletter
MAP intern’s Narration of First Field Trip
It is nine o clock in the morning, Vienkapang road, Trang city. I arrive at MAP´s Asia officefeeling a little…
- Read more about MAP News Issue 303, Dec. 8, 2012Newsletter
MAP News Issue 303, Dec. 8, 2012
VerticalResponse Partnering with mangrove forest communities, grassroots NGOs, researchers and local governments to conserve and restore mangrove forests and…
- Read more about Immediate Internship OpportunityNewsletter
Immediate Internship Opportunity
Food sustainability campaign at an international environmental NGO Are you interested in using your skills to promote the environment, sustainable…