Mangroves grow along shorelines, and provide nursery habitat for many commercial fish and shellfish and thus contribute to the local abundance of seafood.
Mangroves grow along shorelines, and provide nursery habitat for many commercial fish and shellfish and thus contribute to the local abundance of seafood. They protect coastal areas from erosion and storm surges. They also store large amounts of carbon, which helps slow climate change.
Mangrove forests along the coast of Ghana are fast deteriorating due to over-exploitation, deforestation, land reclamation, and pollution. This rate of deterioration is likely to exceed the ability of the remaining mangrove forests and the species that live within them to adapt.
Let us protect our mangroves. They protect us.
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