Drama Amid Indonesia’s Disappearing Mangroves

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Drama Amid Indonesia’s Disappearing Mangroves

NPR – The rising tide laps at the feet of local children and fishermen and submerges all but the tops of the mangrove trees of Tiwoho village in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province. At one degree of latitude north of the equator, the climate here is about the same all year round: hot, wet and perfect for the forests of salt-tolerant trees that grow along sheltered coastlines. Indonesia has one-quarter of the world’s mangrove forests, but it’s losing them at an alarming rate of 6 percent a year. The world as a The flooded forests help protect coastlines from tidal floods and erosion, provide a home to an important variety of biodiversity, and provide important absorption of the world’s carbon dioxide.whole is estimated to have lost half of its mangroves in the past half-century. Listen to Audio

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