Groups launch alliance to halt, reverse mangrove forest loss

More than half of the country’s beach and mangrove forests have been lost to deforestation due to harvesting for wood and charcoal production, conversion to fishpond for aquaculture use, and the unbridled development in coastal areas that include dump-and-fill activities. To halt and reverse this rapid rate of mangrove loss,…

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