Mangroves, with their distinct, entangled root systems, were largely overlooked and misunderstood in the past decades. According to Dan Friess, they were suspected to produce […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Globally, wetlands are vital for human livelihoods and nature. These landscapes that provide critical ecosystem services – which far exceed terrestrial ones – lie at […]

Coastal wetlands are facing unprecedented levels of degradation, heightened by climate change effects, rising human population and high poverty levels. On Africa’s East Coast, the […]

Source to Sea is a three-year initiative that will address the drivers to the loss of wetlands and their biodiversity in Eastern Africa by putting […]

Growing realisation that without enabling nature to recover, including wetlands, there is no 1.5C future COP26 was very much the Nature COP   With nature and water firmly in the COP26 agenda, nature’s […]

The Government of Tanzania has cemented its commitment to conserve and restore mangroves by approving a revised Management Plan, Harvesting Plan and Harvesting Guidelines for […]