Tanzania’s Rufiji Delta is arguably the mangrove capital of East Africa, home to around 55,000 hectares (135,900 acres) of mangrove forest. In the face of the climate crisis, mangroves like this play an important role sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For most of the roughly 49,000 people living in remote communities […]
Years of unchecked exploitation has inflicted much damage on the mangroves, mudflats, freshwater pools and sandy dunes at the mouth of Kenya's second-longest river. But regenerating efforts are underway and showing encouraging results.
Along a riverbank scarred by logging, Joseph Mwandenge Mangi points out a solitary mangrove tree, a species once abundant in the forest where the mighty Sabaki River meets the sea. This is the last one. There are no more left, said the 42-year-old Kenyan, who grew up on the estuary and possesses a ..
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