Mangrove deforestation in Burma left coastal areas exposed to the full fury of Cyclone Nagris, a top politician suggests.
According to the UN, destruction of mangroves in Myanmar contributed heavily to the damaged caused by cyclone Nargis last week.
... the majority of these replanting schemes have been unsuccessful with only 10-20 percent of the mangroves replanted surviving.
In a comparison of a number of replanting initiatives, the authors found ...
... Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, said that although human density is low in the mangrove regions of the Gulf of California, there is increasing pressure to transform mangroves into ...
Philippine researchers say the government is planting mangroves in unsuitable areas, leading to early death for the seedlings.
The world's largest mangrove forest is recovering fast from one of the worst disasters in its history, a year after it was badly damaged by a devastating cyclone, Bangladesh officials say.
An inadequate response to early warnings and destruction of mangrove forests worsened the devastation of cyclone Nargis, say experts.
Felled mangrove trees may have doomed the coast of Myanmar [More]
... A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world's largest mangrove forest in southwestern Bangladesh....
... Marine Special Management Zone regulates fisheries, but not tourism. It protects coral reefs and mangroves and creates a framework for participatory governance of the area but does not regulate land ...
... 2006 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Other assessments are being conducted on seagrasses and mangroves that are also important habitat-forming species, all marine fishes, and other ...
Philippine conservation effort dooms ecologically critical trees
... 6% of Earth's land surface, wetlands (including marshes, peat bogs, swamps, river deltas, mangroves, tundra, lagoons and river floodplains) store 10-20% of its terrestrial carbon. Wetlands slow the ...
... , the Pantanal.
Wetlands include marshes, tidal marshes, peat bogs, swamps, river deltas, mangroves, tundra, lagoons and river floodplains. Among other services, they trap and store carbon in ...
... the Miocene and in the last 20 million years, as the record of large benthic foraminifera, mangrove pollen types, gastropods, and corals has shown.
The research proves the amazing antiquity of the ...