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Mangrove ecosystems being obliterated in Myanmar

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2013-11-27

Mangrove cover in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta declined by nearly two-thirds between 1978 and 2011, leaving coastal areas more vulnerable to disasters like Cyclone Nargis, which killed 138,000 people in 2008, finds a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change.

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