Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

Indonesia has more mangrove forests than any other country, but much of it has been degraded for fish and shrimp farms. The government aims to restore 600,000 hectares of mangroves by 2024, but ...

Indonesia is home to 3.2 million hectares (7.9 million acres) of mangroves, more than any other country. These coastal forests, which serve as nurseries for countless fish species and help mitigate ...

Albeit very small, with a carapace width of only 3 cm, the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab Leptuca thayeri can be a great help to scientists seeking to understand more about the effects of global ...

In the northern Vietnam province of Thanh Hoa, fishers venture out into the mangrove forests to set their traps. The fishers use fyke nets strung between mangrove trees to catch wild shrimp and fish ...

Ed Proffitt, a professor of marine ecology at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, left, and Max Portmann, a PhD student with the Proffitt-Delvin Lab of Coastal Ecology and Genetics, look at a young black ...

59 year old Torika Lewaca, is one of the many fisher women here in Tavualevu village, in Tavua, on the north western side of Fiji’s Viti Levu Island, that depend on mangroves within their traditional ...

Valued for their medicinal properties, ecological importance, and cultural heritage, mangrove habitats across the ...