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Mangrove Restoration Frustration (2021)
These carbon-hoarding, coastline-protecting forests are sponges for greenhouse gases. Doing plantings right and involving local communities are key to saving them.
In 2014 and 2015, Jurgenne Primavera, chief scientific mangrove advisor with the Zoological Society of London, and her colleagues surveyed the damage on Bantayan Island after typhoon Haiyan battered the Philippine archipelago. Frustrated over the failure of so many restoration projects, Zimmer, Wodehouse and Primavera recently joined ecologist Mark Huxham of Edinburgh Napier University and others in publishing a statement arguing against mass planting as a first option. But such models have sometimes raised concerns about “green grabbing”: Mostly rich countries appropriate land — in this case, for carbon-offset mangrove plantations — by excluding local communities from harvesting forest resources, says Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, a social scientist with the French Institute of Research for Development.
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