Half of India's mangroves are already gone.
Over the last century, coastal development, aquaculture, pollution, and rising seas have wiped out more than fifty percent of India's mangrove forests.
These are ecosystems that shield villages from cyclones and hold more carbon per hectare than any rainforest on Earth.
More carbon than rainforests.
Mangroves are one of the most powerful natural climate solutions on Earth — storing up to four times more carbon per hectare than tropical rainforests.
Every mature tree we protect is a decade of captured carbon kept out of the atmosphere.
Less storm impact.
The dense prop root systems of mangroves break wave energy and absorb storm surge — reducing cyclone impact on coastal villages by up to seventy percent.
These forests are living seawalls, rebuilt at a fraction of the cost of concrete.
Of the fish you eat begin here.
Mangrove roots shelter juvenile fish, crabs, and prawns — nursing three-quarters of tropical commercial species during their early life.
When we restore a mangrove, we restore a fishery. When we restore a fishery, we restore a community.