Disappearing mangrove forests cost RP P3B a year in lost forest, fish products
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Vital mangrove areas in the Philippines have shrunk to less than one per cent of its area in 1920. The loss could be worth as much as $3 billion. The country was among 30 countries with the largest mangrove areas in the world in 1980. At the time, it had 146,000 hectares of mangrove forests.
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Disappearing mangrove forests cost RP P3B a year in lost forest, fish products. (1993, November 14). The Philippine Star, p. 22.
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