{"id":7867,"date":"2020-01-31T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"threat-to-biodiversity-risks-a-flood-of-economic-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/31\/threat-to-biodiversity-risks-a-flood-of-economic-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat To Biodiversity Risks A Flood Of Economic Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Enric Sala<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mangroves are trees that grow miraculously on seawater, fringing some of the tropical shores of our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They shelter a wealth of wildlife, protecting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.iucn.org_theme_marine-2Dand-2Dpolar_our-2Dwork_climate-2Dchange-2Dand-2Doceans_mangroves-2Dand-2Dcoastal-2Decosystems&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=VWART3hH1Kkv_uOe9JqhCg&amp;r=sMDV_PgeOAdmDWFOQCGuulQz4qnuEJbej1gSClSdM5U&amp;m=z58kq9xulQJHrDlMKFJTka9dLJvtmrSQYg3mmn4BE7k&amp;s=FnbmqPaCwT-K02iVaGbf4xqz9WUhLyj4122zbZWbSmk&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 3,000 fish species<\/a>, many of which are of commercial importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mangrove trees can sequester up to ten times as much of our carbon pollution per hectare as rainforests, making them an important player in limiting the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mangrove roots also help anchor shorelines around the world, protecting coasts from the devastating impacts of storm waves \u2013 much more effectively than concrete sea walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite all these benefits, mangroves tend to be undervalued. The explosive growth of shrimp farming, urban expansion, climate change and other aspects of economic development reduced mangrove forests by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.nature.com_articles_s41598-2D018-2D31683-2D0&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=VWART3hH1Kkv_uOe9JqhCg&amp;r=sMDV_PgeOAdmDWFOQCGuulQz4qnuEJbej1gSClSdM5U&amp;m=z58kq9xulQJHrDlMKFJTka9dLJvtmrSQYg3mmn4BE7k&amp;s=q6Pk03PKDNP8ybxxwcFJv83Eu8xZ9agDwjJr_yLUzQM&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\">as much as 35%<\/a>\u00a0between 1980 and 2000. 11\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__journals.plos.org_plosone_article-3Fid-3D10.1371_journal.pone.0010095&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=VWART3hH1Kkv_uOe9JqhCg&amp;r=sMDV_PgeOAdmDWFOQCGuulQz4qnuEJbej1gSClSdM5U&amp;m=z58kq9xulQJHrDlMKFJTka9dLJvtmrSQYg3mmn4BE7k&amp;s=o65hOS5PKt2PQlwHeStXj2_tKRqBq6AT8ZZvfFtBWKA&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\">of some 70 mangrove species<\/a>\u00a0are at risk of becoming extinct. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/01\/threat-to-biodiversity-risks-a-flood-of-economic-ruin-1e1591540c\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Enric Sala Mangroves are trees that grow miraculously on seawater, fringing some of the tropical shores of our planet. They shelter a wealth of wildlife, protecting&nbsp;more than 3,000 fish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}