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  • Read more about URGENT ALERT! Mangrove International Action Needed for Reversing Brazil’s Forest Code

    URGENT ALERT! Mangrove International Action Needed for Reversing Brazil’s Forest Code

    Manifest for Brazilian mangroves             Recent amendments to Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) threatens the country’s status as the second largest…

  • Read more about MAP staff joins the Livelihoods Camp in India

    MAP staff joins the Livelihoods Camp in India

     Jaruwan (Ning) Enright, MAP-Asia I as a MAP-Thailand’s Field Project Manager was selected to attend a three days event called…

  • Read more about MAP News 306, Jan 19, 2013

    MAP News 306, Jan 19, 2013

    VerticalResponse   Partnering with mangrove forest communities, grassroots NGOs, researchers and local governments to conserve and restore mangrove forests and…

  • Read more about Manifest for Brazilian mangroves

    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 mangroves

    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, 2013

    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 Habitat

    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, 2012

    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 Ecuador

    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 Junior

    “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?  …