Indonesia’s Vast Mangroves are a Treasure Worth Saving
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Roy “Robin” Lewis about Coastal Restoration
Roy R. “Robin” Lewis III has been studying or restoring coastal habitats for nearly half a century. A wetlands ecologist and president of Lewis Environmental Services, Inc., he specializes in the ecology, management, restoration and creation of fresh and saltwater marshes, mangrove forests, forested freshwater forests, and seagrass meadows. Robin has applied his expertise to
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From vulnerability to resilience
While successful examples of large-scale (5 000-10 000 ha) ecological wetland/mangrove rehabilitation projects exist worldwide, mangrove rehabilitation efforts in Indonesia, both large and small, have mainly failed. The majority of projects (both government programs and non-government initiatives) have oversimplified the technical processes of mangrove rehabilitation, favouring the direct planting of a restricted subset of mangrove
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Green Revolution 2.0: All that was old is new again . .
Dozens of villages in South Sulawesi are rediscovering traditional farming methods that improve their diets as well as their families’ finances. Through coastal field schools offered by Blue Forests, villagers are learning to make organic fertilizer and cultivate organic vegetable gardens. Blue Forests also offers field schools for organic shrimp farming, as conventional shrimp farms are a
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