Libreville’s shrinking mangroves leave Gabon’s capital prone to floods

Mongabay
Apr 6, 2023, 1:40 pm97 pts
In 2021, Gabon’s space research agency, AGEOS, concluded that the country’s capital, Libreville, had lost nearly 70 hectares (170 acres) of mangroves in three years. That’s an area about a fifth the size of New York City’s Central Park, which “is not much,” says Alfred Ngomanda, commissioner of the…

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