Sixteen Percent of the World's Mangrove Forests Threatened with Extinction

photo: International Union for Conservation of Nature

One of the fondest memories of my honeymoon was kayaking through the mangrove forests on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. The trees were mystical, something out of a fairy tale. That's why I was more than a little saddened to learn that forests of this kind all over the world are in serious decline. In fact, many of them are threatened with extinction.

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