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Independent: Mangroves are the salt-water woodlands found fringing many coastlines in the tropics. Imagine this: the authorities in coastal zone X, with a rapidly expanding city behind it, decide to cut down its mangrove swamps because the shallow waters in which they are rooted provide an ideal site for shrimp farms. If developed properly, those shrimp farms might produce, say, two million dollars' worth of exports over five years.
Sure-fire business case. Fantastic. Fetch the chainsaws.
But mangroves......
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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?, By Tony Juniper
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 28th, 2013
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