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<\/p>\nIts disappearance has a direct impact on the climate
\nThis decline in mangrove forests results in a loss of biodiversity that is highly detrimental to the populations relying on their resources for food and shelter. More than 200 million people benefit from the goods and services provided by these ecosystems.<\/p>\n
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However, this dependency is strongest in developing countries. \u00ab\u00a0Mangroves are a major contributor to the national economies of small island states,\u00a0\u00bb notes IDDRI.
\nFurthermore, the degradation of these environments places all of humanity in a precarious position. Mangroves act as carbon sinks with a far greater capacity than terrestrial forests. They capture and store significantly more CO2, making them invaluable allies in the fight against global warming.<\/p>\n
The global area covered by mangroves has shrunk from 188,000 km\u00b2 in the 1980s to just over 152,000 km\u00b2.<\/p>\n
The retreat of these coastal forests is primarily driven by human activity,<\/p>\n
Forests with \u00ab\u00a0feet in the seawater\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong> Its disappearance has a direct impact on the climate This decline in mangrove forests results in a loss of biodiversity that is highly detrimental to the populations relying on their resources for food and shelter. More than 200 million people benefit from the goods and services provided by these ecosystems. However, this dependency is strongest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"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":[26,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alimentation-en","category-biodiversity-en","category-climate-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBetween 1980 and 2010, the total area covered by these mangrove forests\u2014located along the low-lying coasts of tropical regions\u2014dropped from 188,000 km\u00b2 to just over 152,000 km\u00b2, according to a study based notably on figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"