Tanzania's Zanzibar authorities plan to plant 700 hectares of mangroves to prevent coastal erosion as part of efforts to mitigate climate change, an official said on Sunday. Mwita Mangora, the consultant coordinator for the project, said coastal erosion has hugely affected the western areas of the Indian Ocean coastal line…
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 […]