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Certified organic: A new prawn paradigm in Bangladesh
Shyamnagar, Bangladesh 07 Dec 2017
Country: Bangladesh
Topic: Capacity Building, Civil Society Engagement, Coastal Governance ...
In Shyamnagar, Bangladesh, approximately 17,000 hectares of land (nearly the area of Washington D.C.) are being used for shrimp cultivation.
Simple cook stoves ignite entrepreneurial spirit in Myanmar
Pyin Bugyi, Myanmar 26 Sep 2017
Country: Myanmar
Topic: Civil Society Engagement, Sustainable Livelihoods
Home to some of Myanmar’s largest mangrove forests, Tanintharyi Region is known for its pristine coastline and the hundreds of islands in the Myeik Archipelago.
Mangroves provide critical ecosystem services and shield inland areas from storms and...
Mary Matline Smiles Again!
Manalkadu, Sri Lanka 19 Sep 2017
Country: Sri Lanka
Topic: Capacity Building, Sustainable Livelihoods, Gender equality
The northern province of Sri Lanka has gone through some tough times. Between 1980 to 2009, a civil war left over 60,000 people dead, 20,000 missing and 300,000 without homes. The province suffered another setback in 2004 when the Indian ocean struck...
New farming methods secure livelihoods of communities in India
Udayan, Odisha, India 11 Sep 2017
Country: India
Topic: Capacity development, Community Resilence, Financing Coastal Conservation ...
Pampa Dolui is from Udayan, a small village among the mangroves of Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha, India. Her early childhood memories are of her family’s rice paddy fields and clear water ponds. As a 15-year-old, Pampa also experienced the dev...
Nature Lovers return mangroves to Pulau Dua
Pulau Dua, Indonesia 28 Aug 2017
Country: Indonesia
Topic: Coastal Governance, Community Resilence, Integrated Coastal Planning ...
Well-known for its importance as a breeding site for water birds, Pulau Dua was established as a nature reserve in 1937. Unfortunately, in recent decades, much of Pulau Dua’s mangroves were cleared for shrimp farms. With coasts deteriorated, fish th...
Coconut handicrafts and dressmaking
Puttalam, Sri Lanka 07 Aug 2017
Country: Asia Region, Sri Lanka
Topic: Capacity Building, Capacity development, Sustainable Business Practices ...
In Iranawila village in Puttalam, a district situated on the west coast of Sri Lanka, 90% of the population relies on fishing for their livelihoods. In the past decade, villagers have been cutting and selling mangroves trees for the construction of d...
How mangroves got their roots back in East Java
Situbondo Regency, East Java, Indonesia 26 Jul 2017
Country: Indonesia
Topic: Capacity Building, Civil Society Engagement, Climate change ...
Clean air and food on the table. For World Mangroves Day, we're highlighting the ways mangroves offer sustainable solutions to those communities whose livelihoods depend on the resources provided by a resilient coast.
Tapping into sustainable tourism to safeguard biodiversity
Phat Sanday, Cambodia 22 May 2017
Country: Cambodia
Topic: Civil Society Engagement, Community Resilence, Sustainable Livelihoods
As the sun rises and the flooded forests of Cambodia’s Stung Seng wildlife sanctuary come alive with the chattering and whooping of endangered monkeys with their elegant silvery-grey fur, fishermen from the Phat Sanday commune make their way towards ...
Shrimping horizons
Viet Nam 11 May 2017
Country: Viet Nam
Topic: Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation, Sustainable Business Practices, Sustainable Livelihoods
For decades Vietnam’s Mekong Delta has been under threat from one of its most lucrative industries. But now shrimp farming is being used to conserve, rather than deplete, the region’s precious mangrove forests. Ann Moey and Tony Watts, for the Intern...
Working together to build MPAs for long-term marine resources management
03 May 2017
Country: Asia Region, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Viet Nam
Topic: Management Assessment and Monitoring, Marine Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods
Our oceans, coasts and wetlands are crucial for our survival. Mangrove forests, for example, sequester massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and protect coastal communities from cyclone storm surges, while coastal wetlands and coral r...