Mangrove Restoration for Sustainable Fishery in Palk Bay, India
Summary
Mangrove degradation in our area is due to lack of awareness about the benefit of mangroves. They were considered as the fuel wood, eradicated for shrimp farming and cattle grazing. There is no systematic, participatory mangrove restoration approach in Palk Bay. So our organization seeks to address this issue by raising awareness among local community by involving them in participatory mangrove conservation practices in Palk Bay.
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Scale of implementation
Ecosystem
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Challenges
Challenges
Mangrove degradation in our area is due to lack of awareness about the benefit of mangroves as they are considered as fuel wood, eradicated for shrimp farming and cattle grazing. There is no systematic, participatory mangrove restoration approach in Palk Bay. So we seek to address this issue by raising awareness among local community by involving them in participatory mangrove conservation practices
Beneficiaries
Fishermen and women, school students, young fishers/ school dropout youths.
Building blocks
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Impacts
We planted more than 75,000 mangroves and created awareness about marine conservation among ~60000 students. Our mangrove plantation sites are now grown up into small mangrove forest thickets, which benefits local fishing community. The trained youth volunteers by our organization are assisting us in mangrove plantation and awareness. Our team now successfully created GIS map of entire reserve forest of Muthupet (protected area) with local forest department, which helps them for better management. Our technical support and field survey helped to create accurate boundary line along the boundary stones for about 13,000 hectares. Our village level mangrove GIS maps are displayed in community halls which supports decision making on new mangrove plantation sites, land use management and flood prevention. After a good recognization for our approach with local community, they helped us to establish Palk Bay Environment Education Centre in a coastal village which is now developing as a main place for coastal ecosystem conservation, research and awareness in our district in Palk Bay.
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