Revolutionizing the Digital Landscape: Our CEO’s Vision for Unlimited Web Hosting…A broad coalition of organizations is working to conserve and restore mangroves in the Greater Florianópolis area on Brazil’s southern Atlantic coast.
Considered nurseries for marine life, species that eventually migrate out to sea, mangroves are key to the fishing supply chain, both small-scale and industrial. It may seem a small increase, but it will cause greater coastal erosion problems and indicates that future flooding will reach higher places that historically have never flooded, affecting more people and causing more damage. Rising sea levels are associated with ocean warming, which in turn interferes with rainfall, causing stronger weather events.
The project’s permanent staff includes 15 people from five institutions: ANAMA, the Federal University of Santa Catarina , the Santa Catarina state environmental institute , the Environmental Management and Education Agency and the Çarakura Institute.The mangroves targeted for restoration are located in the river basin with the highest population density in Santa Catarina, which also includes the main water sources that supply the Greater Florianópolis area.
“It’s like the human body,” Castro says. “If you have a knee problem, you stop doing several activities and that affects the system as a whole. But once you cure the problem, you have a healthy body.” The same concept of resilience, he says, boosts the positive effects of on-site conservation. Mangrove area with pine trees in the background leading up to Mount Cambirela. This landscape is part of Serra do Tabuleiro State Park in Palhoça. Image courtesy of Dilton de Castro.With support from UFSC’s graduate studies program in oceanography, two studies are being carried out under the project to better understand the contribution of mangrove conservation and restoration to the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change.
Participants carry out an exercise during a workshop on fighting forest fires. Image courtesy of Gisele Elis.