Renewing mangroves and beach forests could protect Philippines coast from typhoons, storms, floods and land erosion.

of mangrove forests, and more than 150 fish species, including at least 60 commercially important species sold not just in Palawan, but as far away as the Philippines’ capital, Manila ...

Program Philippines Power Foundation, Inc.. “Mangroves comprise various groups of salt-tolerant plants. Each group, like the bakauan species, has a specific location in mangrove zonations ...

A common mistake in mangrove planting is not choosing the right species for the appropriate site. Most of the planting activities in the Philippines use Rhizophora mangroves, locally known as bakhaw.

SASMUAN, PAMPANGA, Philippines — The local environmental ... These include making food by-products from the mangroves species pagatpat (Sonneratia alba) that are more common in the area.

A total of 39 species of mangroves can grow in the Philippines. Ten of them were identified to be feasible for planting in the Leganes ecopark, namely: ZSL-Philippines and the local government ...

In the tangled darkness of Southeast Asian mangrove forests, one crab species appears to have evolved a structure that ...

In 1985, Malampaya was found to have 2,500 hectares (about 6,200 acres) of mangrove forests, and more than 150 fish species, including at least 60 commercially important species sold not just in ...

In some mangrove species, like those found in Shark Bay, the process is akin to cloning. Despite being right at the edge of their feasible habitat, these mangrove forests still have sufficient ...