Restoring Mangrove Forests in Papua New Guinea

A women-led community group called Mangoro Market Meri is replanting mangrove forests in Bootless Bay, located near Papua New Guinea’s capital city. The trees are critical to coastal tidal zones because they support the ecosystem—and communities—in some unique ways: They protect shorelines from erosion, provide nursery habitat for marine animals and they store large volumes of carbon. So when some of the bay’s forests became depleted, The Nature Conservancy helped local partners set up programs and nurseries to propagate and replant new mangroves. So far, Mangoro Market Meri has planted more than 3,000, with plans to plant 200,000 in the next 10 years.

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[mesagoat]

Florida needs a program exactly like this! Nature Conservancy please notify me, I would luv this as an occupation

[jaimiehashey]

Thanks for this! I hope to become more of a part of something like this soon. Working on it through the local tree stewards program. It does get hard having to juggle an actual job and being a steward, but I do what I can. It is essential that people really start getting into programs like these more, but many don't have time in a capitalist system. Sad I can't attend this weekend's planting due to my regular job.

[harryaurere]

Well done. In PNG, conserving forest, including mangrove is no easy task.

[davidlipset]

Why only near POM? There are other mangroves in PNG.

[mesagoat]

Florida needs a program exactly like this! Nature Conservancy please notify me, I would luv this as an occupation