Restoring mangroves, protecting coastlines in Kenya

Kenya, Mombasa

ClimatePartner ID: ENV0004

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Mangrove restorationLeer het project kennen

Mangrove forests play a significant role in the protection of the coastlines around the world, providing highly valuable ecosystem services to coastal communities. Benefits include reducing the impact of waves and storm surges, improving water quality, reducing soil erosion, providing nursery grounds for a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic species, and supporting coastal tourism.
Mangroves once spanned 1,641 hectares of Tudor Creek in Kenya, but today, only a few hundred hectares remain due to anthropogenic threats of urbanization and demand for firewood.

This project has planted mangrove seedlings to restore the degraded mangrove forests of Tudor Creek, together with our community-based local partners Brain Youth Group and Amani Jipange. These groups will also be benefitting from the socio-economic programmes provided through the project.

How does mangrove restoration contribute to climate action?

Mangrove trees are significant carbon reservoirs because they remove more greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere than terrestrial forests. Their special root system, which has semi-earthy and semi-marine components, collects biomass from organic matter, such as dead leaves and branches, over the years and binds CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere. This particular root system stores far more CO₂ than other tree species.

Worldwide, mangrove forests have been destroyed for agriculture or aquaculture, or cleared for timber and firewood. By damaging these enormous CO₂ reservoirs, large amounts of CO₂ are released again into the atmosphere. To avoid this,mangrove restoration projects protect mangrove forests and preserve coastal habitats for a variety of wildlife species - both in water and on land. The dense roots of mangroves also serve as natural protection against erosion, flooding and storms in coastal regions.

Het project heeft als doel om bij te dragen aan deze Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) van de Verenigde Naties.

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Klimaatprojecten vallen over het algemeen in één van de volgende drie groepen: CO2 vermindering, CO2 verwijdering of CO2 vermijding. CO2 verminderingsprojecten verminderen de uitstoot van broeikasgassen door een specifieke activiteit (bijv. verbeterde kooktoestellen). CO2 verwijderingsprojecten halen CO2 uit de atmosfeer door het vast te leggen in koolstofputten (zogenaamde "carbon sinks", bijv. herbebossing). CO2 vermijdingsprojecten voorkomen dat broeikasgasemissies in de atmosfeer terechtkomen (bijv. bescherming van bossen tegen ontbossing met REDD+-projecten).

Klimaatprojecten verminderen, verwijderen of vermijden aantoonbaar de uitstoot van broeikasgassen. Dit wordt bereikt met verschillende technologieën, variërend van op de natuur gebaseerde oplossingen ("Nature Based Solutions") tot sociale impactprojecten en hernieuwbare energie.

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