#mangroves

Today is #InternationalDayofCleanAir and #Indonesia is battling once in a century #wildfires, occuring due to El Nino and #ClimateChange. Destruction of #mangroves for #palmoil is cooking the planet and killing everyone. There is another way - #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/everything-is-covered-in-ash-indonesia-wildfires-leave-people-in-crisis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Today is International Day for #Mangroves. After decades of destruction, global #mangrove #forests are rebounding in some parts of the world – a tentative #climate gain for #coasts #wildlife and people 🌴🔥 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/06/mangroves-are-making-a-comeback-its-a-rare-climate-success-story/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

🌱 International Day for Mangrove Conservation!🌱 Can mangroves survive another strong EL Niño? This #GeoLog shares some good news: after decades of decline, #mangroves are growing back in parts of the world, thanks to restoration and natural regrowth. But it's not all good news - places like the Niger Delta are still losing mangroves fast, and a strong EL Niño this year could put even the recovering areas at risk⚠️. 🧵Read more here: https://egu.eu/0M2YDG 📸: Joern Behrens on #imaggeo

From Pillars in the Sea Nicoló Brugnara, India In Versova Koliwada, an elder prays among rows of drying Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus) hung on bamboo racks. For generations, the Koli have preserved fish this way, but as seas warm and coasts urbanise, fishing livelihoods become less viable. Photograph: Nicolò Brugnara/MPOTY #photography #mangroves #fishing #women #prayers #AlText

Seeking Refuge in the Mangroves Evan Cooper, Bahamas A juvenile green turtle in a shallow Bahamian mangrove forest near sunset during high tide. As the water levels rise and the tide comes in, the mangroves’ roots transform from a barren buffer to a flourishing ecosystem home to sea turtles, crustaceans, fish and much more. Given its size, this turtle has probably arrived here from the Sargasso Sea. Photograph: Evan Cooper/MPOTY #photography #mangroves #turtles

Tigers downsized Where the Mangroves Begin Kallol Mukherjee, India Two jungle cat kittens emerge from the dense mangrove forest in the Sundarban tiger reserve. It is a rare glimpse of the smaller, lesser-known wildlife that shares this tidal landscape with the reserve’s tigers, and survives its shifting mud, saline water and daily tidal flooding. Photograph: Kallol Mukherjee/MPOTY #photography #mangroves #cats #kittens

Mangroves Two Worlds, One Ecosystem Jake Stout, Cuba A split shot reveals the two often-overlooked halves of a mangrove ecosystem: the tangled roots above, and the seagrass bed below — a transitional nursery where juvenile fish shelter before graduating to nearby coral reefs. Photographed in Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina, a marine protected area since 1996, where strong protection has produced some of the Caribbean’s richest biodiversity. Photograph: Jake Stout/MPOTY #photography #mangroves

Seeds of hope from a coastal village Garry Lotulung, Indonesia Pasijah, 56, plants mangrove seedlings beside her flooded home in Bedono, Demak, Central Java — one of the last residents remaining after more than 200 families left as rising seas and land subsidence submerged the village. She’s planted mangroves since 2000, watching her family’s rice fields turn to ponds and then disappear. Photograph: Garry Lotulung/MPOTY #photography #mangroves #conservation #women

Tangled Glow: When Life Meets the Ruins Gaurav Patil, India A ‘ghost’ fishing net glowing under ultraviolet light, tangled in a mangrove on the tide-swept shore of Nandgaon village, Maharashtra, south of Mumbai, has won this year’s Mangrove photography awards. #photography #mangroves #pollution #India

Mudskippers in Awe! Ashok Behera, India Two mudskippers face off on wet mud, mouths agape and fins raised in a territorial display, their blue-spotted patterns catching the light. A vivid glimpse of the tidal flats of the Sundarbans – the world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest – where these fish walk, jump and breathe on land. Photograph: Ashok Behera/MPOTY #photography #mangroves #mudskippers #fish

#Florida's Hidden Gem: See #photos of Pan's Garden in #PalmBeach by Meghan McCarthy, April 13, 2025 "The all-native botanical garden was established in 1994 by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach." https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/04/13/see-photos-of-pans-garden/81619339007/ #SolarPunkSunday #SpendTimeInNature #BotannicalGardens #Mangroves #Wetlands #NativePlants #PansGarden #Bloomscrolling #Gardens

Planting #mangroves to defend communities A #MangroveRestoration program in northern #Mozambique aims to help protect the coastline from storms while supporting #OceanEcosystems, too. by Winile Ximba, Jul 10, 2026 "The Indian Ocean coastline of northern Mozambique is a sandy flatland where palm tree forests dominate the interior whilst near the shore, mangrove trees line the mouths of the blue sea. Despite being the poorest part of the country, it’s an idyllic land of beauty where the biggest human populations prefer to live near the ocean for the ease of trade and to forage seafood resources. "However, the region is facing significant effects from climate change, such as the super cyclone that hit the districts of Mecufi and Milamba in December 2024. Keeping land, livestock and vulnerable members of society from being swept away into the ocean hinges on wild plants: the mangrove in particular, says Josica Nada, a community leader and forestry activist in Mecufi. 'We are not planting mangrove plants out of eco-green fashion, but survival,' he says of what he calls his community’s 'heroics' in replanting a two-hectare coastal zone with mangrove plants in the past five years. [...] "Now, a grassroots initiative – the Northern Mozambique Rural #Resilience Project (#NMRRP) – is taking shape in northern provinces. A key component of the NMRRP is the race to restore mangrove forest cover along the coastline ahead of the arrival of future megastorms." Read more: https://www.rewildingmag.com/planting-mangroves-to-defend-communities/ #SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #RewildingMagazine #MoreTrees #MoreForests #MangroveForests

How the world’s voracious appetite for shrimp is destroying Ecuador’s mangroves https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/19/world-appetite-shrimp-destroying-ecuador-mangroves #Ecuador #environment #mangroves #shrimp

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction A new study shows that since 2010 the world has been gaining more #mangroves than it has been losing - driven by stronger legal protections and increased public awareness of their importance https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4pk07npvvo #environment #nature #Climate #ClimateChange

Mangroves are ‘powerful and undervalued’ for curbing nitrogen pollution, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/mangroves-are-powerful-and-undervalued-for-curbing-nitrogen-pollution-study-finds/ #environment #nature #mangroves #nitrogen #pollution

📰 Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study. Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems. ➕ Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/mangroves-clean-up-usd8-7-billion-of-nitrogen-pollution-every-year-study-finds #SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation

Way ahead of you, Live #Science https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/mangroves-clean-up-usd8-7-billion-of-nitrogen-pollution-every-year-study-finds My 2010 take on the #history of #mangroves from #Venezuela to the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico here https://www.nikolaskozloff.com/blog/tags/Mangroves #climate #wildlife #biodiversity #fossilfuels #oil