The researchers sought to make population estimates for 37 commercially important species in mangrove forests around the world and then add them all together to calculate a global estimate.

Run by the Mangrove Action Project, external, the competition, now in its sixth year, aims to show the relationships between wildlife, coastal communities, and mangrove forests, as well as the ...

For decades, biologists and conservationists watched in alarm as one of the world’s most valuable natural ecosystems vanished. In the 1980s and ’90s, coastal mangrove forests throughout the ...

Paula Hamadi, 53, said that she never saw the mangrove forest as bad as it is now. For years, she’s been going to the forest almost every day during the low tide in the morning to search for clams.

The Mangrove Photography Award winners show the beauty and fragility of the unique ecosystems.