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 Bruce Byers, Bruce Byers Consulting Cruising through mangrove-lined channel opposite Angoche © Bruce Byers After wading across the low tide mudflats at the Port of Angoche, and into knee-deep water to climb into the fiberglass boat, the big Yamaha outboard wouldn’t start. While we bobbed lazily in the hot sun and I fretted about [...]  Jonathan Cook, WWF-US Click the photo to download the report Along the west coast of Viti Levu, Fiji’s largest island, the communities of Tikina Wai have lived near mangrove forests for many generations. Local people depend on these forests for fish, wood, medicinal plants and other resources; and the mangroves help buffer them from [...]  by Jonathan Cook, WWF-US Community members, Fiji © Joanna Ellison For the past six months, I have managed a WWF project, supported by the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Program, that tries to address the significant adaptation challenges facing a fascinating but often neglected ecosystem: mangrove forests. Mangroves – the guardians of tropical [...] |
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