{"id":1698,"date":"2025-04-09T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:15:48","slug":"aquaculture-negatively-impacts-mangroves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/aquaculture-negatively-impacts-mangroves\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaculture negatively impacts mangroves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Changing Markets Foundation, not only could \u00ab\u00a090% of the wild catch currently harvested be consumed directly by humans,\u00a0\u00bb but a halt must be put to intensive aquaculture, which also negatively impacts the well-being of vulnerable coastal communities. Experts from the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) have highlighted the role played by this industry\u2014particularly shrimp farming\u2014in the loss of 35% of the planet&rsquo;s mangroves, a figure that rises to over 70% in certain regions like Asia.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1696\" src=\"http:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2026-09-09-\u00e0-12.10.19-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2026-09-09-\u00e0-12.10.19-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2026-09-09-\u00e0-12.10.19-300x363.png 300w, https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2026-09-09-\u00e0-12.10.19.png 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><br \/>\nShrimp farming and aquaculture in Asia are estimated to have caused the degradation of 17,000 km\u00b2 of mangrove forests and the loss of their natural habitats. This accounts for virtually the entire area of \u200b\u200bcoastal forest cover worldwide affected by this type of operation (19,000 km\u00b2). Together, these two activities are responsible for more than half (52%) of the damage caused.<br \/>\nFinally, industrial aquaculture is accused of disrupting the food chain by harvesting small forage fish, which serve as a vital link for predators such as tuna, salmon, cod, sharks, and whales. \u00ab\u00a0Reduction fisheries\u2014particularly in Asia\u2014are plundering the ocean for juvenile fish and targeting new species that were previously of no commercial interest,\u00a0\u00bb the report&rsquo;s authors conclude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Changing Markets Foundation, not only could \u00ab\u00a090% of the wild catch currently harvested be consumed directly by humans,\u00a0\u00bb but a halt must be put to intensive aquaculture, which also negatively impacts the well-being of vulnerable coastal communities. Experts from the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) have highlighted the role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}