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 down
and droughts in the 1970s and 1980s have exacerbated this degradation process.
Between 1980 and 2010, 25% of Senegalese mangroves disappeared.