ASEAN tackles mangrove management
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will try to work out a collaborative sustainable mangrove management in the region amid climate change in a Mangrove Congress September 4-8 in Manila. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) will hold the 2nd ASEAN Congress on Mangrove Research and Development with the theme “Sustainable Management of Mangroves in the course of Climate Change.” “Mangrove habitats represent both a vulnerable resource and a potential deterrent to the effects of climate change. Sea level rise poses a major threat to mangrove ecosystems as it induces erosion and weakening of root structures, increased salinity, and mangrove inundation,” the ERDB said.
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ASEAN tackles mangrove management. (2017, August 31). Manila Bulletin, p. B-9.
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Environment management; Mangroves; Sustainable development; Climatic changes; Mangrove conservation; Research; Climatic changes; Environmental protection; Sea level changes; Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR); Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB); McIvor, Anna; Adornado, Henry
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