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"Mangroves ring the shores of many of Indonesia’s more than 17,000 islands. But
in the most populated areas, the world’s largest mangrove forests have been
steadily whittled away, and with them, the ability to store blue carbon.
As the world’s fourth-most populous nation has grown, pressure on the mangroves
has too. More than 756,000 hectares of mangroves have been cleared and turned
into brackish ponds to farm water shrimp and milkfish.
Every year for the past three decades, another 19,000 hectares has been ripped
out for aquaculture and increasingly, for oil palm plantations. As of 2015, an
estimated 40% of the country’s mangroves had been degraded or lost.
Is this another predictable bad news story about the environment? No. This is a
good news story. That’s because Indonesia’s government is, rising to the
challenge of conserving its mangroves – and restoring lost forests.
Government investment in mangroves is rising and the political will is in
place. Indonesia’s ambitious goal is to restore almost all of what’s been lost,
rehabilitating 600,000 hectares of mangroves by 2024."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
