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West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves

dc.contributor.authorThompson, Felicity
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.coverage.spatialSierra Leoneen
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-15T17:29:04Z
dc.date.available2020-04-15T17:29:04Z
dc.date.issued2010-03-12
dc.identifier.citationThompson, F. (2010, March 12-13). West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves. BusinessWorld, p. S3/8.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/8183
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBusinessWorld Publishing Corporationen
dc.subjectsaltsen
dc.subjectmangrove swampsen
dc.subjecterosionen
dc.subjectmangrovesen
dc.subjectmangrove conservationen
dc.subjectcarbon dioxideen
dc.subjectgreenhouse effecten
dc.titleWest Africa sets out to protect dying mangrovesen
dc.typenewspaperArticleen
dc.citation.journalTitleBusinessWorlden
dc.citation.spageS3/8en
local.seafdecaqd.controlnumberBW20100312_S3/8en
local.seafdecaqd.extractSalt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest nations still recovering from a 1991-2002 civil war, lawmakers are preparing a bill to join a seven-nation charter to protect the region's mangrove forests.en
local.subject.personalNameDacosta, Richard
local.subject.personalNameKano, Marie
local.subject.personalNameMansaray, Mohamed
local.subject.corporateNameWetlands Internationalen
local.subject.corporateNameWest African Mangrove Initiativeen
dc.contributor.corporateauthorReutersen


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