Mangrove restoration is becoming big business, but benefits don’t always reach local people
The Conversation Africa
byAarti Krishnan, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Innovation, University of Manchester, Ahmad Aldrie Amir, Associate Professor of Mangrove Ecology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), Behara Satyanarayana, Associate Professor, Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Friday, October 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Beyond the monetary value of carbon credits sits something more complex: every restoration project involves trade-offs, and somebody carries them.
On Pakistan’s Indus delta coast, a 350,000-hectare mangrove project is turning a growing forest into something that can be sold to companies thousands of miles away: carbon credits.
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The Conversation Africa
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