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"MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate
change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to
mangrove restoration projects, with Mozambique becoming the latest addition to
the growing list of countries with large scale mangrove initiatives.
Mozambique follows efforts across the continent — including in Kenya,
Madagascar, Gambia and Senegal — and is touted as the world’s largest coastal
or marine ecosystem carbon storage project. Known as blue carbon, carbon
captured by these ecosystems can sequester, or remove, carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere at a faster rate than forests, despite being smaller in size.
Mozambique’s mangrove restoration project — announced in February alongside its
UAE-based partner Blue Forest — hopes to turn 185,000 hectares (457,100 acres)
in the central Zambezia and southern Sofala provinces into a forest which could
capture up to 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide, according to project leaders.
“Blue carbon can be utilized not only to sequester tons of carbon dioxide but
to also improve the lives of coastal communities,” Vahid Fotuhi, the Chief
Executive officer of Blue Forest, told the Associated Press. “There are around
one million hectares of mangroves forests in Africa. Collectively they’re able
to sequester more carbon dioxide than the total annual emissions of a country
like Croatia or Bolivia.” He added these projects would create green jobs and
promote biodiversity."
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