Resources

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Mangrove Restoration Handbook (Swahili)

Mangrove restoration is complex and is prone to failure when the necessary conditions are not met. This Practical Guide provides a clear, concise and proven […]

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Technical Brief: Baseline Review on Sustainable Conservation and Management of the Rufiji Delta Landscape

Rufiji Delta in Tanzania hosts the largest single mangrove forest in Eastern Africa. Despite the critical ecosystem goods and services it provides to communities and […]

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Restoring Lamu’s Mangroves

Located along Kenya’s coast, Lamu hosts 60% of the country’s mangroves. These forests are biologically diverse, habouring intertidal flats and seagrass meadows that are rich […]

News

Reducing Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk in Eastern Ethiopia

Degradation of ecosystems such as forests, wetlands and dry lands is now widely understood as a major driver of disaster risk and a key component […]

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Effects of Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation on WASH Services Delivery

Ethiopia’s Central Rift Valley (CRV) is a vital region in terms of its enormous ecosystem services and augmented biodiversity. Nevertheless, its ecosystem services and biodiversity […]

Blog

Regional Platform for Africa’s Mangrove Conservation Established

Mangroves are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems on earth and have a significant ecological, economic and socio-cultural role in the lives of coastal […]

News

Collaborative Partnership to Restore Lamu’s Degraded Mangroves

The Kenya Forest Service (KFS), together with the community, Wetlands International and other partners, has launched a campaign to restore degraded mangrove areas in the […]

Blog

Ecological Mangrove Restoration: Paradigm Shift for Kenya’s Coastal Communities

Globally, mangrove forests have been exploited, degraded and destroyed mainly by human activity like cutting for timber, fuel and charcoal, for land development near the […]

Blog

Grist to the Mill for Peacebuilding? Water, Peace and Security in Mali and Kenya

Water plays an important role for peace and stability of the African continent. In addition to the conservation of wetlands, interventions around the preservation of […]

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Mangrove Restoration: To Plant or Not to Plant?

Active planting of mangroves has been popular in the past decade. However, a majority of these efforts are not successful. There is a better approach […]