Capturing crabs and carbon in the fight against climate change in Viet Nam
Regenerating mangroves is muddy, complex work. In Nam Dinh Province, twenty years ago coastal defence forests were healthy, but over the years, forests have thinned. To experience this first hand, I tied-on a pair of special cotton mangrove mud-socks and boarded a small local fisherman’s boat in Nam Dinh province and headed out into the mangrove forests. I was part of the team working with local communities to replant and regenerate mangroves under the Government-UNDP-GCF coastal resilience project.
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