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Harnessing Nature-based Solutions for a Sustainable Blue Economy: Reflections on the FFEM Exchange Day ahead of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference
The French Facility for the Global Environment (FFEM) had the pleasure to organize on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 with the Conservatoire du littoral, the Domaine de Rayol, the French Development Agency, IDD...
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World Wetlands Day: A Look Back at Biodiversity Protection in the Mediterranean Region
Every year, World Wetlands Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of these ecosystems (marshes, wet meadows, mangroves…), which are essential for maintaining natural balance and...
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Mexico (Campeche): 21st International Congress on Environmental Sciences and Mangrove Restoration
The National Academy of Environmental Sciences (ANCA) and the Autonomous University of Campeche, through the Institute of Ecology and Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico, the Coastal Wetlands Laboratory,...
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Methodological Guide for Mangrove Restoration – FFEM – 2024
The FFEM has supported multiple projects dedicated to the protection, management, and restoration of mangroves, as part of its strategy on the Resilience of Aquatic Ecosystems. To improve their effect...
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Obtaining support from the FFEM for your “carbon finance” projects
Carbon finance is essentially a way of assigning a value to the climate impact of actions on the ground. Carbon finance mechanisms were introduced through the Kyoto Protocol. They allow developed coun...
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2023 FAO Report on Mangroves
The latest FAO report on mangroves has been released. This report provides global and regional estimates of the area covered by mangrove forests, including changes in area between 2000 and 2020. It an...
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Events on mangroves
The next International Mangrove Conference (MMM6) will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, from July 24 to 28, 2023. The International Workshop of the Tropical Restoration Network (TRN) will take place...
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Benin Mission (February-March 2023)
After the postponement of previous missions due to COVID, a new mission in Benin was held from February 27 to March 5, with the participation of several actors of the initiative. Organized by Ebénézer...
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End of project in the Philippines: concrete but sometimes mixed results
From November 2015 to June 2022, the FFEM supported the implementation of the project “Building Coastal Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in Small Island...
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Restoration of the Cuajiniquil Mangrove: A Testimonial from the Phoenix Expedition
Phoenix Expedition is a sailing expedition with the ambition to contribute to the “regeneration of the ocean.” Departing from Brittany in February 2022 towards California, the team meets, documents...
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European Tropical Ecology Conference
The European Conference on Tropical Ecology was held in Montpellier on June 7 and 8, 2022. Lisa Macera presented a poster on her remote sensing work, including the results on Cuajiniquil in Costa Rica...
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The Mangroves Initiative at the PRCM Forum
The 10th edition of the Coastal and Marine Forum will be held from March 29 to April 1, 2022, in Saly, Senegal, under the theme: “Ocean health, a sustainable development challenge for West African coa...
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Mild solutions in the Saint Louis MPA
A summary of the implementation of soft coastal protection solutions and monitoring results in the Saint-Louis MPA: March 2019-December 2020 has just been produced. It reports on the work carried out...
Discovering the Mangroves of West Africa: Environmental Education Manual
This Environmental Education Manual was produced as part of the “Rice and Mangrove” project implemented by the Guinea-Bissau Institute for Biodiversity and Protected Areas (IBAP). It presents mangrove...
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The Mangroves Initiative at the World Conservation Congress (IUCN, 2021)
With a strong presence at the IUCN Congress, the Mangroves Initiative presented various results at three events:
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IUCN 2020 Congress: Mangroves Thematic Session
As part of the World Conservation Congress, the IUCN, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM), and the Research Institute for Development (IRD) are organizing a mangroves thematic session: “...
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Meeting days on the sidelines of the IUCN Congress
On the sidelines of the IUCN Congress to be held in Marseille from September 3 to 11, the FFEM is organizing two days dedicated to the Mangroves Initiative.
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Soft solutions for coastal risks
This study aims to analyse how soft solutions, which provide alternative and/or complementary responses to conventional solutions in addressing coastal erosion, are integrated into the NDCs (Nationall...
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Restoration of the Cuajiniquil and Terraba Sierpe Mangroves: Already Spectacular Results
These videos showcase the magnificent and impressive restoration work carried out in the Bahia Tomas mangrove (Cuajiniquil) and the Terraba Sierpe mangrove, together with the project teams and communi...
