COASTS AND DELTAS
Goal: Safeguard and restore coastal wetland ecosystems as essential features of resilient and productive coastal landscapes.
Healthy wetlands
2030 TARGET: Safeguard 2 million hectares of high value coastal wetlands, including vital wildlife migration corridors
Working towards the ambitious goals of the Mangrove Breakthrough, we have grown the Global Mangrove Alliance to over 80 members. Member organisations from civil society organisations and knowledge institutes have organised themselves in 12 country chapters, which are currently developing national mangrove strategies in countries including Ecuador, Indonesia, Kenya and Mexico. Beyond mangroves, we became a founding member of the World Coastal Forum, playing an active role in its efforts to conserve and restore coastal ecosystems. We’ve directly contributed to these initiatives through landscape projects in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia that have brought over 600,000 hectares of wetlands under improved
management and restored more than 1,500 hectares of mangroves. These interventions have been replicated by others on a much larger scale. To further upscale our efforts, we’ve developed various tools and training materials. For example, we trained hundreds of mangrove practitioners across the tropics, and more than 4,200 users visit the Global Mangrove Watch platform each month, up more than 50% from 2022. We published and shared a roadmap for investment in mangroves and guidelines on ecological mangrove restoration approaches. In Japan, we developed a framework for monitoring biodiversity in mudflats, seagrass, algal beds and rocky shores, while in China we introduced an evidence-based approach to mudflat restoration.
Lamu harbours approximately 61% of the Kenya’s mangrove forests. Wetlands International has been working with the local communities, authorities, civil society and research institutions towards mangrove forest restoration where women have a 50 per cent representation as they are mainly involved in restoration efforts.
In Japan we developed a framework for monitoring biodiversity in mudflats, seagrass, algal beds and rocky shores.
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Wetlands International Annual Review 2023
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