were less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree vegetation. Last week the FAO reported that 20% of the world’s mangrove forests have disappeared since 1980. (27-Oct-2005 ...

I also saw the results of heavy mangrove reforestation since the tsunami. Can replanting mangrove forests on tropical coastlines really protect communities from the immense destruction of a ...

Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in the tsunami-impacted regions of Indonesia, Malaysia ...

Mangroves Shielded Communities Against Tsunami Date: October 28, 2005 Source: World Wildlife Fund Summary: A new study released today in the journal Science shows that areas buffered by coastal ...

The tsunami experience wasn’t the only factor in the decision. Mangrove forests help to create healthy seas because they act as nurseries for fish, prawns, crabs and other marine animals that ...

Mangrove forests grow along the coast in fine ... The extent to which mangroves reduce the damage caused by typhoons (as well as tsunami) is still debated, but the evidence suggests that mangroves ...

It also revealed the consequences of severe degradation of coastal ecosystems over the last decades: where mangrove forests ... mangroves and scrub forest, the tsunami killed only two people ...

Fifteen years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Sri Lanka’s government intends to keep expanding the island’s coastal green belt — the chain of mangrove swamps credited with limiting the ...

“Even now, the coastal districts are vulnerable and unequipped to face another tsunami. Nagapattinam needs ... on the importance of increasing the mangrove cover along coastal areas.

Speaking at a press briefing on “Effects of tsunami in Japan and disaster risk reduction mechanisms in Pakistan”, IUCN's Asia chief Aban Marker Kabraji said that mangrove forests not only ...

Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in the tsunami-impacted regions of Indonesia, Malaysia ...