Wo-Mangroves Project in Sunderbans - United Way India

Wo-Mangroves Project in Sunderbans

Wo-Mangroves Project in Sunderbans

The Sunderbans – the largest Mangrove forest and home to a number of rare endangered species of flora, fauna and wildlife. Being one of the most important and productive ecosystems on earth, Sunderbans provides a host of most valuable natural resources to local people. Its role as a wetland nursery for marine organisms and as a climatic buffer against cyclones is unique.

Mangroves have tremendous socio-economic importance and provide protection to the hinterland from damages of cyclones/tsunami. Despite such healing qualities, mangroves have been degraded due to human interventions such as illicit felling of trees, unregulated grazing, brackish water aquaculture.

Mangroves have tremendous socio-economic importance and provide protection to the hinterland from damages of cyclones/tsunami. Despite this, mangroves have been degraded due to human interventions such as illicit felling of trees, unregulated grazing, brackish water aquaculture.

With a long-term goal of restoring the degraded mangrove areas, Project Wo-Mangroves is improving the mangrove cover across the wetland and encouraging women from local communities to gain livelihood while building a healthy ecosystem. Project Wo-Mangroves is increasing pace and bringing greater scale of the Mangrove Afforestation as means of promoting sustainable long-term interventions that leaves a positive impact on the community and more importantly our environment

The key beneficiaries of the project were people from local communities. With improved ecosystem and livelihood generation for women, farmers and families, the project has become an exemplary intervention

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