A Philippine community sees life-saving payoffs from restoring its mangroves

Mongabay
Nov 17, 2020, 7:40 pm1.3k ptsInteresting
AKLAN, Philippines — In December 1989, Elizabeth Ramos, now 63, heard from a neighbor that a mangrove reforestation project was underway near her home in the province of Aklan in the central Philippines. The meeting Ramos joined that day was for a reforestation effort by the Department of Environment and…

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