Conference calls for more urgent action on mangroves

Recognizing an urgent need to reduce the continuing loss and degradation of mangroves, participants in the International Conference on Sustainable Mangrove Ecosystems, have urged policymakers, mangrove practitioners and scientists, costal communities, international organizations, the private sector, and donors to “redouble their work” to ensure the conservation, restoration, protection and sustainable management and use of the world’s remaining mangrove ecosystems.