World Rainforest Movement
(Photo: Greenpeace International) Mangroves, which are a type of forest, could be considered the most forgotten or invisible tropical forests on the planet. And their inhabitants, in turn, could be (Read More)
In June 2013, delegates from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Venezuela and Guatemala joined together in Monterrico, Guatemala for the 6th Meeting of the Board of Directors of (Read More)
The community of Isla Chicales, located in the municipality of Nueva Concepción in the department of Escuintla, is made up of 140 families who benefit directly and indirectly from fishing (Read More)
Brazil’s coasts are seriously threatened by a range of large-scale projects. The privatization of waterbodies, concessions over public waters for free to big consumers, and installation of fish farms are (Read More)
(Photo: C-Condem) The décima is a poetic form that has been used for many years as a tool of protest by Afro-Ecuadorians, who keep this cultural traditional alive while denouncing (Read More)
The shrimp industry has boomed over the last 20 years as the result of production on large industrial shrimp farms, which have devastating impacts on mangroves as well as causing (Read More)
According to The World’s Mangroves 1980-2005 (FAO 2007), Indonesia has the largest mangrove area in the world in terms of the extent of the region. However, the condition of mangroves (Read More)
(Photo: SSNC) The negative patterns of land grabbing and intimidation recorded by a Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) investigating team in shrimp farming areas around Khulna, Bangladesh clearly affect (Read More)
The land grabbing effect of conservation projects is rarely considered in the current discussion of global ‘land grabbing’. In Tanzania, where around 40 % of the land area of the (Read More)
The Martín Pescador Centre, devoted to the marketing of products and the revaluation of the culture of the ancestral peoples of the mangrove ecosystem, is an initiative of the National (Read More)
Mangroves, food sovereignty for coastal communities was the theme chosen this year for the International Day for the Defence of Mangrove Ecosystems (July 26) by Redmanglar International, which organized a variety (Read More)
The People’s Coalition for Fisheries Justice Indonesia (KIARA) celebrated the World Mangrove Day issuing a press release where it “urged the government to immediately conduct a revocation of the business (Read More)
“Keep tiger prawns off your plate” – video of SSNC campaign, athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0tkYK7oEM&list=PL20325D34102EA53B&index=6
“Yo vivo en el bosque del manglar” – video by CESTA / Amigos de la Tierra El Salvador, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB4lCKXOhSM (in Spanish with English subtitles)
Motion video – by Carly Hoover, MAP’s featured artist to celebrate July 26 Mangrove Action Day, at http://player.vimeo.com/video/19264147 (only in English)
“Llora el Manglar”– by Leandro Velasco y PROYDE, ASPA y AZACÁN SERSO Castilla y León http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/12853/Llora-el-manglar (in Spanish with English subtitles)
“Question your Shrimp” – Mangrove Action Proyect (MAP), at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVJbUHGAQg#at=15