Mar 14, 2012 12:00 AM
Andrea Booth
Mangroves being destroyed at “an alarming rate” yet not mentioned in Rio+20’s zero draft
OGOR, Indonesia (14 March, 2012) _“Oceans” will be one of the key issues under discussion at Rio+20 with the aim to ensure sustainable ocean development and the protection of marine resources, yet mangroves – whose carbon sequestering ability and raft of ocean ecosystem services are being lost at an “alarming rate” – are not mentioned at all in the summit’s zero draft agenda.
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