Mangrove forests are one of the world’s richest ecosystems and protect the coastline from erosion and storms. Yet Indonesia’s strong industrialization since the 1960s has led to the loss of forests, which have been transformed into rice fields, shrimp and prawn production basins, and intensive palm oil plantations for the high parts. The North Sumatra […]

Consisting of a hundred islands of which half are uninhabited, the Sundarban delta is currently the world’s most vast mangrove area. As a National Park that straddles both India and Bangladesh, it is preserved as part of the World Heritage of Humanity for its rich biodiversity.

The tropical forest covers nearly half of Peru’s territory and is the third most vast forest in the world, after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since 1983, part of its area is protected and preserved within a National Park, and has been recognized as a UNESCO cultural and natural heritage of humanity […]

Mangrove forests develop between land and sea in humid tropical and subtropical areas. They are one of the world’s richest ecosystems and are essential to the life cycles of fish species: most fish worldwide reproduce in mangrove areas. In Senegal where they are used for firewood, construction wood and charcoal, mangroves have been excessively cut […]