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The FFEM Mangroves Initiative: Building our resilience on nature

Mangroves play a major role in mitigating and regulating the impacts of climate change: they act as a bulwark against violent storms and contribute to carbon sequestration and storage. It is also essential for maintaining local populations in the vicinity, notably as a habitat and nursery for species exploited for local economic development.
The Mangroves Initiative
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The objectives
The challenge of this initiative is to collectively build, based on proven experiences, a solid case for the importance and methods of restoring mangroves. This initiative is part of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).
Foster the exchange of experiences by networking projects; assess the different technologies implemented, their effectiveness, advantages and disadvantages, and their cost; evaluate their adoption by local communities and the benefits provided.
Enhance scientific and technological knowledge, through scientific monitoring in the field of mangrove and green belt restoration, focusing on maintaining their functions, their capacity to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and their role in carbon sequestration and storage. Provide information on initiatives other than those of the FFEM in this field.
Build on and share the achievements and best practices of projects, through the production of capitalization documents and dissemination tools.
Activities of the Mangroves Initiative
Experiences are regularly documented during seminars and field visits in order to feed capitalization and communication tools. A final capitalization document is produced in the form of a methodological guide. The promotion of the initiative is carried out through:
• the FFEM website: www.ffem.fr
• practical sheets on the tools and methods developed,
• the methodological capitalization guide,
• a general public illustrated book on the role of mangroves and project experiences,
• the production and dissemination of films and photos of the projects,
• the publication of the proceedings of the final seminar,
• exhibitions.
News of the Mangroves Initiative
Mexico (Campeche): 21st International Congress on Environmental Sciences and Mangrove Restoration
Published on september 4 2024

Methodological Guide for Mangrove Restoration – FFEM – 2024
Published on april 23 2024
Events on mangroves
Published on february 25 2023

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