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Indonesia mangrove restoration

Indonesia slashes 2021 mangrove restoration target, vows to make up in 2022

Indonesia has lost much of its mangroves to shrimp farms and logging, which have also undone previous efforts at mangrove rehabilitation.

shrimp farming threatens mangroves

Civil war didn’t hurt this Sri Lankan mangrove forest, but shrimp farming might

A similar project to establish firm farms in a mangrove area, resulted in 90% of the farms being abandoned because of disease outbreaks among the shrimp.

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