The banks and delta of the Mono River in Benin are home to mangrove swamps which harbour fish and ... the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The traditions are in danger of ...

The Niger Delta has the largest mangrove forest ecosystem in Africa and some of the ... "The mere fact that the swamp is now greening again is a happy scene for the beneficiary communities ...

And a burgeoning aquaculture industry, fueled in part by the effects of climate change, is decimating traditional fishing in West Africa and destroying coastal mangrove swamps in Southeast Asia.

Since the 1950s, their lands, fishing grounds and the mangrove swamps that enrich and protect them have been under sustained pressure from the oil industry. It is estimated more than 13 million ...