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Mangroves (Blue Carbon) and Green Tourism in the City of Abu Dhabi, UAE Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arab...

By Peter Prokosch

Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the City of Abu Dhabi, UAE Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arab...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Mangroves, Avicennia marina, (Blue Carbon) in the City of Abu Dhabi, UAE Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arab...

By Peter Prokosch

Saltmarshes, Westerhever, Wadden Sea Nationalpark Schleswig-Holstein, Germany The Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea, with its tidal flats, tidal creeks, estuaries, salt marshes, beaches, dunes and islands is one of the last relatively unspoilt natureareas in Europe. The tidal rhythm determines the pa...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Small-scale reef fishermen, Philippines Small-scale fishers in the Philippines use traditional outrigger-style boats. Few are motorized, resulting in limited spatial mobility for most fishers and high localized fishing pressure. Coastal protection, including m...

By Rebecca Weeks (Marine Photobank)

View of Namenalala Island at the heart of Namena Marine Reserve, Fiji The Namena Marine Reserve encompasses the entire barrier reef around Namena Island, Fiji, and is part of a larger network of marine protected areas set aside by managed by 10 village chiefs, making up the District of Kub...

By Stacy Jupiter (Marine Photobank)

Mangrove and human activity in South Bimini, Bahamas Mangroves of the Bimini Islands, in the Bahamas, represent the only mangrove ecosystem located on the entire Northwest Bahama Bank. They are critically important to local and regional fisheries, through their role as nur...

By Matthew Potenski (Marine Photobank)

Mangrove forest near Everglades City, USA Mangrove habitat is reported to cover over 430,000 acres of the Florida coastline. Mangroves provide many important ecological services. They support fisheries through serving as nurseries and habitat for economically vi...

By Riandi (Wikimedia Commons)

Mangrove habitat in Oleta River State Park, Florida, United States Located in North Miami, the Oleta River State Park is Florida’s largest urban park, representing over 1000 acres of coastal and estuarine habitat. Community based efforts are underway in the park, to remove invasive spec...

By Steven Lutz

Young red mangrove tree in the Benner Bay Mangrove Marine Sanctuary, Virgin Islands Located in St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands, the Benner Bay Wildlife and Marine Sanctuary represents over six square miles of mangrove habitat. The bay is known as a “hurricane hole,” an ideal location to m...

By Kate Fuller (Marine Photobank)

Mangroves off Miami, United States Mangroves once blanketed the coastal islands off Miami, including Miami Beach and Key Biscayne. Most were cleared for coastal development and port dredging.

By Steven Lutz

Mangrove habitat in the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo, United States Established in the 1963, the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was the first undersea park created in the United States. The park represents over 70 square nautical miles of mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and cor...

By Steven Lutz

Juvenile fish habitat on the Virgin Islands Mangroves provide shelter for many juvenile fish species in the United States Virgin Islands. They are also recognized as important carbon sinks, helping to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, through storage in c...

By Christian Perthen (RUI LLC)

Salt marshes in Maryland, United States Salt marshes are seen as one of the most biologically productive habitats on earth. They provide nutrients to coastal waters and therefore act as an important feeding and nursery ground for a large variety of animals, in...

By Steven Lutz

Belize reef, seagrasses and mangroves from above Mangroves forests, seagrass meadows and coral reefs can be connected to each other through nutrient cycles, physical processes, plant and animal migration and human impact. Protection of mangrove and seagrass habitats (b...

By Jason Valdez (Marine Photobank)

Mangrove restoration by the Jaring Halus community in North Sumatra, Indonesia A stand of juvenile mangroves, planted in a wildlife sanctuary by members of a local fishing community. Mangroves in the sanctuary provide many important ecosystem services, including supporting fisheries and in the deve...

By Alfredo Quarto (Marine Photobank)

Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve The Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, part of the University of California Natural Reserve System, is an area of swampy land reserved and preserved for wildlife. It serves as a stopover area for migratory birds, and provid...

By Gerick Bergsma (Marine Photobank)

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