"He said the faster rate of rising sea-level on #Bangladesh's coast will increase the vulnerability of coastal people and their livelihoods.
Salinity, coastal inundation, and storm surge height will increase. It could impact agriculture, food security, disaster management, health, drinking water supply, and coastal infrastructure.
The world's largest #mangrove forest and its ecosystem will be affected by rising sea-level and salinity."
"When the saplings grow to a height of about two or three feet, the women plant them along the embankment.
"Now they are ready to act as a green barricade, their intricate and knotty root systems reaching deep into the soil, strengthening the earthen embankments to absorb the shock of sudden tidal surges."
// While ambient sounds provided a soundtrack for my thoughts—in one village, it was the muezzin; in another, a neighbour partaking in a passionate karaoke session that seemed to swell the air above the open water—what kept coming back to me was the memory of entering the village of Pitas Laut, narrowing into a winding tributary under the hooded shelter of #mangrove trees. We could do so only because the water was “turned on”, as the villagers describe it in Malay...
I'm looking to recruit a graduate student this year to continue our partnership with Indigenous communities in #Fiji along questions of #reef and #mangrove ecosystem services. If you know of students interested please send them my way (jadrew@esf.edu)
Here, is my certificate/picture of my #MANGROVE Tree. It is thanks to #Microsoft#Weather and the Eden Reforestation Projects in Kenya, after 86 days reaching level 10 (which will be planted as a real tree over there).
PS. The Image itself has thy certificate text, since I have no idea what a MANGROVE tree looks like.
The perepat trees (Sonneratia alba) are flowering all along the coast of Port Dickson. They’re the pioneer mangrove species around here, closest to the water. They hold the land down against the sea.