News Headline

Cuba’s Mangroves Dying of Thirst

Source
Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2013-10-22

SURGIDERO DE BATABANÓ, Cuba, Oct 22 2013 (IPS) - In the 1960s, the Cuban government declared that storage of fresh water for times of drought or hurricanes was a matter of national security, and it began to dam up the country’s rivers. But that policy has claimed an unforeseen victim: mangroves.

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