Mozambique: Restoring Mangrove Ecosystems

Our projects in Mozambique focus on the restoration and reforestation of mangrove trees: a coastal tree species enormously effective at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. 

Communities in Mozambique rely heavily on their natural resources, with forests at the heart of their economy and ecosystem. With over 45% of the population living under the poverty line, destruction of the natural resources essential to their economical and social well-being through deforestation, due to commercial logging, farmland clearance, cyclones & floods, is disastrous.

We support the planting of mangrove trees on a huge scale along the coastline of Southern Mozambique, an area that has suffered significantly from deforestation.

Not only are mangroves one of the best tree species at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere (they can store up to ten times more carbon than other tree species!) they also benefit the environment in other important ways; the mangroves we’re planting in Mozambique are improving ocean and coral reef health, helping to subdue erosion and providing habitat for the local bird and animal species, many of which are threatened. Their roots even provide a home for fish to dance within.

These projects are empowering local communities by providing much-needed jobs, who plant and manage the mangrove forests. 

In a nutshell, this project is:

• Increasing biodiversity

• Removing harmful carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

• Providing habitat for local wildlife

• Protecting against environmental disasters such as floods & storms

• Addressing poverty in local communities by providing much-needed jobs