Mangrove forests show global recovery with gains exceeding losses for 16 years, study finds
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Summary
Mangrove forests, which lost nearly 2,900 square kilometers between the 1980s and 2010 due to clearing for shrimp farms, rice paddies, and development, are now making a surprising global comeback. A Tulane University study analyzing four decades of satellite data reveals that mangrove recovery is accelerating worldwide, with gains exceeding losses for 16 consecutive years. This reverses the long-held narrative that mangroves were one of the world's most threatened ecosystems on an irreversible decline.
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· 5 pulledMangrove forests had a bad 20th century.
They were cleared relentlessly for shrimp farms, rice paddies, and beachfront development.
Conservation reports treated them as one of the world's most threatened ecosystems.
New research, though, says it isn't.
A team at Tulane University analyzed four decades of satellite data and found something that
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