Bissau’s fringing shoreline along West Africa’s Atlantic coast, a protective green halo along the many bays and estuaries.

Villagers of Nacula in the Yasawa group have invested their time and effort into planting more than 100 native trees and raising 600 mangrove seedlings, to help rehabilitate their eroding coastline ...

At the same time, a living countercurrent flows back in: the eggs, larvae, and sometimes the gravid females of reef creatures that use the mangroves as a nursery. If any fish is emblematic of this ...

Share articleMangroves are perfect for a lot of things. Coastal protection. A natural fish nursery. But their finger-like ...

Mangroves provide many benefits to coral reefs, including protection from sedimentation, filtering nutrients from land and rivers, and a nursery habitat for many species of juvenile fish.

When Stefan Teodorescu’s aunt returned from a trip to the Pacific islands, one memory stuck with her: she described for ...

The dense forest of roots offers welcome shelter for the finger-size fish, which form large schools to try to confuse predators. Mangroves enhance reefs by providing a nursery area for vulnerable ...