News Headline

Drama Amid Indonesia's Disappearing Mangroves

Source
National Public Radio (USA)

Publication Date
2012-04-30

The rising tide laps at the feet of local children and fishermen and submerges all but the tops of the mangrove trees of Tiwoho village in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. At one degree of latitude north of the equator, the climate here is about the same all year round: hot, wet and perfect for the forests of salt-tolerant trees that grow along sheltered coastlines.

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http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/151548173/drama-amid-indonesias-disappearing-mangroves