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Climate-change adaptation models help farmers escape poverty

Many farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have escaped poverty by adapting to climate change and shifting from rice to corn or peanut cultivation as well as the breeding of goats and aquatic species.

Farmers profit from breeding crabs amid mangroves

 VietNamNet Bridge – Kien Giang Province’s Farmers Association plans to expand the breeding of ba khía (Sesarma mederi), a mangrove crab species, in protective mangrove forests in An Bien District.

No mangroves, no land, no work

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coastal communities in the south are in danger of losing their livelihoods to increasing land erosion resulting from the loss of a natural buffer - mangrove forests.

Con Dao Islands home to turtles, crabs and a multitude of sea life

VietNamNet Bridge – With their pristine seas, the Con Dao Islands are home to a large number of sea turtles. Every year, between April and November, their breeding season, thousands of turtles crawl ashore to lay eggs in the sand,

Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests

 Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests.

Visiting the southernmost Cape

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cape Ca Mau feels like the end of the world. This southernmost point in Vietnam is a place where land, sea and sky mingle at the edge of mangrove forests teeming with wildlife.

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Mekong Delta mangrove forests declining at alarming rate

 VietNamNet Bridge – The coastal mangrove forests in the Mekong River Delta, which protect the local ecosystem and local residents, is declining at a rapid rate because of the proliferation of shrimp ponds.

Idyllic Thung Nham mangroves offer bird watching paradise

 VietNamNet Bridge – At dusk, we take a boat to the mangrove forests of Thung Nham Bird Park and wait for the flocks to return to their nests after a hard working day.