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Nations recognize ocean conservation as a measure to combat climate changeIn a surprising decision at last week’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), ocean conservation was supported as a measure to combat climate change.Endorsed by 41 of 71...

by Maria Belen Vallejo

Mounting scientific evidence is showing how Earth’s largest organisms can join forces with some of the smallest to combat climate change. This unlikely pairing is between some of the largest and tiniest life in the ocean, whales and phytoplankton. They work together...

Traveling between remote islands by dugout canoe, and trudging through muddy mangrove forests in 40-degree Celsius heat coaching fisherfolk on monitoring techniques is all in a day’s work for Madagascan marine conservationist Lalao Aigrette.Aigrette is passionate...

NAIROBI (Landscape News) — Salomão Bandeira is a marine botanist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, with expertise on mangrove and seagrass ecosystems.As a practitioner, Bandeira looks beyond ecology to broader issues such as community engagement in...

A self-proclaimed “ambassador for mangroves,” scientist James Kairo has been swapping between the muddy gumboots of grassroots action and the shiny shoes of high-level policy discussions for around 27 years now.As a graduate student at the University of Nairobi, Kairo...

Just 30 km south of the booming port town of Mombasa, residents of two tranquil Kenyan villages are making history.Here, amongst the mud-walled houses and coconut trees, the people of Gazi and Makongeni villages have become the world’s first communities to harness the...

Compared to other types of carbon sink, seagrass in Kenya can absorb 35 times more carbon – a fact that is helping to kick-start poverty alleviation schemes in the regionIn order to control the climate and mitigate climate change, carbon sinks are a vital part and...

The Sultanate of Oman has been planting hundreds of thousands of mangrove seedlings over the past 17 years.Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that dense mangrove woodlands covered much of Oman's coastline and islands in ancient times. Now efforts to...

The Blue Forests Project`s lead partner organization in Ecuador, Conservation International Ecuador (CI-Ecuador), has shared with us the story of the Ecuadorian coastal community of Las Huacas, a fishermen village that has fully committed to the sustainable management...