A women-led community group called Mangoro Market Meri is replanting mangrove forests in Bootless Bay, located near Papua New Guinea’s capital city. The trees are critical to coastal tidal zones because they support the ecosystem—and communities—in some unique ways: They protect shorelines from erosion, provide nursery habitat for marine animals and they store large volumes of carbon. So when some of the bay’s forests became depleted, The Nature Conservancy helped local partners set up programs and nurseries to propagate and replant new mangroves. So far, Mangoro Market Meri has planted more than 3,000, with plans to plant 200,000 in the next 10 years.
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