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| Forest (157) | |
| Mangrove forest (6) | |
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| Tropical forest (6) | |
#Sri lanka first to protect mangroves Sri lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests.
"No nation in history has protected ever all of its mangrove forests and Sri lanka is going to be the first one to do so,
mangrove forests are also not susceptible to forest fires. But mangroves also offer coastal communities a more direct and immediate form of protection,
Healthy fish populations, sustained by healthy mangrove forests, have provided also livelihoods and nutrition for millions of small-scale fishermen and their families for generations, allowing coastal communities to sustain themselves.
A UN report published in November 2012 warned that the growing demand for prawns meant that valuable mangrove forests were still being felled
800 hectares (21,800 acres) of existing mangrove forests by providing alternative job training, funding microloans to people in exchange for protecting local mangroves forests.
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