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The Asian Cities Climate [Change] Resilience Network is restoring vital ecosystems like forest mangroves.
Pretty much everywhere, the fields and forests, the mangroves and meadows that fireflies need to survive, are giving way to development and to sprawl.
We've lost millions of acres of coastal mangroves over the last 30 or 40 years.
Mangroves are bulldozed to make room for shrimp farms, robbing coastal communities of storm protection and natural water filtration and depriving fish of key nursery habitats.
What we did was, during the day, we would hide in the mangroves.
The mangroves are being cut down; the effects of things like the tsunami get worse.
Their construction also frequently destroys important ecosystems like mangroves and marshes, which protect coastal areas from storms, provide habitats, and absorb tons of greenhouse gases.
TNC's idea is to restructure this debt, to generate the funds and political will to protect reefs, mangroves and fisheries.
In Indonesia, people call them "kucing bakau," which literally translates to "the cat of the mangroves."
But I like to call them the tigers of the mangroves.
Mangroves, on the other hand, are much more than just habitat to the fishing cat.
Mangroves also prevent soil erosion, and they can be the first line of defense between storm surges, tsunamis and the millions of people who live next to these forests for their day-to-day survival.
So protecting one acre of mangroves may well be like protecting five or more acres of tropical forests.
In less than a decade, with international support, the state forest departments and the local communities worked together to restore over 20,000 acres of unproductive fish and shrimp farms back into mangroves.
About five years ago, guess who we discovered in these restored mangroves?
Meet Moshi, a tribal poacher, who not only stopped hunting and became our most prized conservationist, but also used his traditional knowledge to educate his entire community to stop hunting fishing cats, otters and the many other threatened species that live in the mangroves in his backyard.
Fish and shrimp farmers, like Venkat, are now willing to work with us conservationists to test the sustainable harvest of ecosystem services like crabs, and possibly even honey, from mangroves.
Incentives that could get them to protect and plant mangroves where they have been lost.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
They were also producing mangroves in a plantation.
And the mangroves were providing wood and honey and leaves for the animals, so that they could produce milk and whatnot, like we had in the Biosphere.
And up will come mangroves, and sea turtles and your own kidneys.
And I'm rather proud to say that this was found just near London, and that 55 million years ago London was full of mangroves.
This is a photo of a lemon shark pup, and it shows these animals where they live for the first two to three years of their lives in these protective mangroves.
Performances were great, the pacing and gorgeous cutaways to other life in the mangroves were excellent and the ending moments of the film felt very right.
The setup is rather basic; Grace, her husband Adam and her younger sister Lee are touring some mangroves in the Northern Territory when a saltwater crocodile flips their boat and leaves them stranded in the trees.
BLACK WATER, however, really resonated with the eeriness and fear that you can experience when you are alone in the mangroves (you guys call them swamps or bayous - but they're mangroves).
Where oceans meet the shore, degradation of mangroves and grasslands jeopardizes our coastal communities.
A 100-meter belt of mangroves, for example, can reduce wave height by up to 66% and lower peak water levels during floods.
But every dollar spent to protect mangroves and coral reefs saved $20 in future hurricane losses.