Sometimes, progress means helping nature do what it does best. This seems to be the case for a once-barren 200-acre piece of land surrounded by lush mangrove forests in El Salvador. Mangrove forests provide a vast array of valuable ecosystem services and play a critical role in climate change mitigation and adaptation; they sequester carbon, […]
Empowered Women Protecting El Salvador’s Mangroves
A conversation with geographer Fiona Wilmot. In April I met up with Fiona Wilmot, a longtime friend and collaborator of EcoViva and the Mangrove Association. She presented a paper at the American Association of Geographers conference in San Francisco in the panel Addressing the Interior in Socio-ecological Systems: Affective Transformation and Intentional Acts of Biophysical Rehabilitation. […]
Salvadoran Communities to Coordinate Major Investment in Mangrove Conservation
$2.5 million destined for locally-led conservation initiatives in the bay The Fund for the Initiative of the Americas, FIAES, a leading environmental funder and conservation organization in El Salvador, announced last month it would be investing $16.6 million over the next five years in the protection of seven wetland areas and nature reserves across the […]
National Forum on Mangrove Restoration and Conservation
On Tuesday, November 26, EcoViva and the Mangrove Association will participate in a national forum on the “Inclusive Conservation and Restoration of Mangroves in El Salvador.” The forum will highlight our work to pioneer the adoption of Ecological Mangrove Restoration and the Mangrove Association’s model of community conservation, identified as a Local Sustainable Use Plan. 150 […]
National Forum and Workshop Bring Ecological Mangrove Restoration to El Salvador
Between July 11-14, over 30 people will gather in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador to participate in a 4-day hands-on workshop in the Bay of Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve to discuss the challenges of mangrove restoration and begin the implementation of a pioneering new technique to bring degraded mangroves back to life. This workshop […]
