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Best practise guidelines on the restoration of mangroves in Sri Lanka

Language(s): English , Author(s): IUCN Sri Lanka country office

The best practise guidelines aim to provide the reader with appropriate knowledge and understanding over the different aspects of mangrove silviculture (planting) for coastal protection.


Description:

 The guidelines include Identification of sites for mangrove cultivation, mangrove plant species for cultivation, identification of common mangrove plants, knowledge useful for mangrove cultivation, selection of mangrove plants for cultivation, mangrove seeds and planting material, mangrove plant nurseries – Site preparation, nursery plantation, mangrove planting/ transplanting techniques, after-care operations and community based strategies for mangrove restoration

Publication

State of World's Waterbirds 2010

This booklet summarises what is known about the status of waterbird populations in different parts of the world. It shows how numbers and population trends compare from region to region, and how they changed between the 1970s and the 2000s.

Video

Tierra del Fuego peatlands & climate change (video)

This video tells the story how Tierra del Fuego's peatlands in Argentina function, are degraded due to peat mining and how this all relates to global climate change. The video includes beautiful sceneries, local experts and much more. 

 

Scientific article

Eco-Virological Approach for Assessing the Role of Wild Birds in the Spread of Avian Influenza H5N1 along the Central Asian Flyway

  A unique pattern of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreaks has emerged along the Central Asia Flyway, where inf...

Presentation

Ecosystems and Community Based Climate Change Adaptation Training Kit

Wetlands International and its partners have taken the initiative to develop a Training Program on the different aspects of ‘ecosystem and community based climate change adaptation...