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REFERENCES

MANGROVES: AN OVERVIEW

Mangroves and their uncertain future
Greenpeace España, "S.O.S. manglares en peligro de extinción", http://www.greenpeace.es/manglares/manglar0.htm

Mangroves are life, long live mangroves
By: Elmer López Rodríguez, Greenpeace, e-mail: elmer.lopez@dialb.greenpeace.org

Unsustainable versus sustainable shrimp production
ISA Net Report. Prawn to Trade Prawn to Consume http://www.shrimpaction.com/SHRIMP%7E1.PDF

Sustainable Development Alternatives for Mangrove Forests, Mangrove Action Project, http://www.earthisland.org/map/sstal.htm

Rocking the boat: Conserving Fisheries and Protecting Jobs by Anne Platt McGinn, Worldwatch Paper 142, June 1998, Worldwatch Institute.

Noticias, October 2, 01, Biodiversidad en América Latina, http://www.biodiversidadla.org/prensa2/prensa394.htm

Environmental, social and economic impacts of shrimp farming
"Prawn to Trade, Prawn to Consume", Industrial Shrimp Action Network, http://www.shrimpaction.com/SHRIMP%7E1.PDF

The pillars of increased global shrimp trade
Isabel de la Torre (ISA Net), and David Batker (APEX), "Prawn to Trade, Prawn to Consume", http://www.shrimpaction.com/SHRIMP%7E1.PDF

Engineering the Blue Revolution", GRAIN, www.grain.org/publications/dec973-en.cfm

"Rocking the Boat: Conserving Fisheries and Protecting Jobs", Anne Platt Mc Ginn, WorldWatch Paper 142, June 1998.

"The devastating delicacy", Greepeace/USA, http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/reports/biodiversity/shrimp/shrmp02.html

Shrimp aquaculture in international environmental treaties
By: Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Forest Peoples Programme, e-mail: mfferrari@pd.jaring.my

Tropical Prawns versus Mangroves
By: Eva Hernández, article sent by CODDEFFAGOLF, e-mail: cgolf@sdnhon.org.hn

NETWORKING FOR MANGROVE PROTECTION

Global Group Formed to Counter Destructive Industrial Shrimp Farming
By: Maurizio Ferrari, Forest Peoples Programme, e-mail: mfferrari@pd.jaring.my

The Latin American Mangrove Network is born
By: Elmer López, Greenpeace, e-mail: elmer.lopez@dialb.greenpeace.org

INSIDE THE MANGROVES

AFRICA

Kenya

Mangroves threatened by Canadian mining company
"Undermining the Forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study", available from the Forest Peoples Programme at info@fppwrm.gn.apc.org

Madagascar

Mangrove importance and threats
By: Rabarisoa Rivo, e-mail: takatra@dts.mg

Nigeria

Threatened mangroves
Late Friday News, 33rd Edition, 27/3/99.

The World Guide 1999-2000.

Oil and violence
Late Friday News, 35th edition, April 1999, from a report by Niger Delta Human and Environmental Rescue Organization ND-HERO dated April 22, 1999.

People protect mangroves against shrimp farming
"Movement Against Shrimp Farming In Nigeria Launched", Mangrove Action Project (MAP), e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

Björn Kjerfve, Luiz Drude de Lacerda and El Hadji Salif Diop, "Mangrove ecosystem studies in Latin America and Africa".

"Oil extraction in the Mangroves", Tegantai 10, Oilwatch Network Bulletin, http://www.oilwatch.org.ec/tegantai/english/tegantai10/mangin10.html

Tanzania

Mangroves menaced by aquaculture project
Patricia Nzioka, East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS).

Environment Tanzania (JET), 23/5/1998.

Impasse on commercial shrimp farming at Rufiji Delta mangroves
Late Friday News, 71st Edition, October 2000, e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

The death of the Rufiji Delta Prawn Project
Shrimp centinel on line: National Report from Tanzania http://earthsummitwatch.org/shrimp/national_reports/crtanzan.html

Balinagwe Mwambungu, Chairman "Journalists Environmental Association of Tanzania", e-mail: jet@africaonline.co.tz

Electronic Mail&Guardian, http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/97jul1/15jul-tanzania.html

ASIA

Bangladesh

Mangroves menaced by oil and gas companies
Chowdhury M.F., Friends of the Earth-Bangladesh, August 1998, gbs@dhaka.agni.com

Polder 22, The struggle to protect the Sundarbans
By: Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project (MAP), e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

Memorial Day of Korunamoyee Sardar
By: Asa Wistrand, Nijera Kori, e-mail: nkshrimp@agni.com

Burma

Upstream deforestation and shrimp farming are destroying the mangroves
"Myanmar Coast mangroves", WWF, http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im1404_full.html

The U.S. Commercial Service,
http://www.usatrade.gov/website/CCG.nsf/CCGurl/CCG-BURMA2002-CH-2:-0045F7E4

"Boycott imports from Burma", CFOB, http://www.cfob.org/CanadianPolicy/imports.shtml

Cambodia

Can banning be the solution to mangrove conservation?
Late Friday News 32 (10/3/99) based on article by Bou Saroeun in Phnom Penh Post, 19/2/99.

Too late and too little to protect mangroves
Late Friday News, 59th edition, 31/3/2000, e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

India

Violence against local fisherfolk
Chris Bright, "Life out of Bounds", Worldwatch Institute, 1998.

Government Approves Socio-Economic Development Projects, Ha Noi, June 15 (VNA).

Aerial Seeding Project Carried out in Lai Chau and Son La Provinces, Ha Noi, June 20, 1999 (VNA).

Indonesia

Opponents to shrimp farming industry under arrest

Mounting tensions over industrial shrimp farming
By: P. Raja Siregar, e-mail: radja@walhi.or.id, edited by Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Forest Peoples Programme, e-mail: mfferrari@pd.jaring.my

The destruction of mangrove ecosystems
The Late Friday News, 107th Edition, Mangrove Action Project, e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net , http://www.earthisland.org/map/index.htm

"The world of mangroves", http://www.mangroveweb.net/html/mangrov.htm

"Monitoring Mangrove Forests using Remote Sensing and GIS, Yousif Ali Hussin Mahfud M. Zuhair Michael Weir, http://www.gisdevelopment.net/aars/acrs/1999/ps5/ps5126pf.htm

Malaysia

Each prawn produced represents a teardrop
By: Meenakshi Raman, Consumers Association of Penang, e-mail: meenaco@pd.jaring.my

Penang's mangroves and biodiversity conservation
"Workshop on the importance of mangroves", The Late Friday News, 95th Edition, 17/3/02 E mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

Philippines

Shrimp farming and mangrove decline
By: Gilbert Sepulveda, Tambuyog Development Center / Aurora Support Group and ISA-Net, e-mail: gilsep@hotmail.com

Sri Lanka

Local fisherfolk protect the mangroves
Mangrove Action Project, 28th Edition of the Late Friday News, 22/1/1999.

Thailand

Uncertain future for the world Nº 1 exporter?
By: Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Forest Peoples Programme, e-mail: mfferrari@pd.jaring.my

Vietnam

Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank (I)
By: Chris Lang, e-mail: chrislang@t-online.de

Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank (II)

By: Chris Lang, e-mail: chrislang@t-online.de

LATIN AMERICA

Belize

Villagers defend their mangroves
Late Friday News, 35th Edition, 1/5/99.

Shrimp farming threatens Placencia Lagoon's mangroves
Late Friday News, 67th Edition, August 2000, e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

Colombia

Local communities affected by shrimp companies
Asociación de Productores para el Desarrollo Comunitario de la Ciénaga Grande del Bajo Sinú, e-mail: asprocig@colnodo.apc.org.co, web page: http://www.asprocig.org.co

Actions against expansion of industrial shrimp farming
"S.O.S. Río Sinu", by the Asociación de Productores para el Desarrollo Comunitario de la Ciénaga Grande del Bajo Sinu (ASPROCIG), e-mail: asprocig@regmanglar.org, asprocig@colnodo.apc.org.co web page: http:www.asprocig.org.co

"Las Represas de Urrá en Colombia y de Ralco en Chile. Ecosistemas y Etnias Afectados. El Informe de la Comisión Mundial sobre Represas", EcoPortal.net, http://www.ecoportal.net/noti/notas408.htm

Ecuador

Greenpeace action to protect remaining mangroves
Greenpeace's web page: http://www.greenpeace.org

Government tries to hand over mangroves to the private sector
Late Friday News, 32nd Edition, 9/3/99.

Acción Ecológica, Mangroves Campaign, e-mail: cmanglar@hoy.net , 12/3/99.

Mangrove replanting initiative
By: Alfredo Quarto, MAP; 27/6/2000, e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

Action to save mangroves in Guayas
The Late Friday News, 76th Edition, 13/1/01

Cecilia Chérrez, Acción Ecológica, 18/12/2000

FUNDECOL, Press Release, 4/1/2000; e-mail: fundecol@ecuanex.net.ec

Mangroves and shrimp farming companies
By: Alfonso Román, Acción Ecológica, e-mail: manglares@accionecologica.org

Guatemala

Shrimp-farm generates violence and death
"Disturbios en Champerico producidos por una camaronera. Un menor de edad resulta muerto por la policía". Trópico Verde, 10 May 2001; Update by Trópico Verde 23 May, e-mail: mailto@tropicoverde.org , web page: http://www.tropicoverde.org

Security for shrimps, insecurity for the local population
By: Carlos Albacete, Trópico Verde, http://www.tropicoverde.org and "Los impactos de la actividad camaronera en Champerico, Retalhuleu, Guatemala", June, 2001.

Honduras

Action to protect mangrove forests and wetlands against shrimp farming
CODDEFFAGOLF, e-mail: cgolf@sdnhon.org.hn and ISA Net, e-mail: maufar@fppwrm.gn.apc.org

Struggle against shrimp farming gaining ground
CODDEFFAGOLF, 4/12/00, e-mail: cgolf@sdnhon.org.hn

World Bank involvement in mangrove destruction
Late Friday News, March 2001, e-mail: mangroveap@olympus.net

CODEFFAGOLF, 27/3/2001, e-mail: cgolf@sdnhon.org.hn

Shrimp farming destruction
By: Jorge Varela Márquez, "Humedales del Golfo de Fonseca, Honduras, amenazas y reacciones", CODDEFFAGOLF, e-mail: cgolf@sdnhon.org.hn

Mexico

Mangroves vs. shrimp farming and golf courses
Mangrove Action Project, 25 April 1998.

Mangrove destruction by tourism and shrimp farming
Late Friday News, 33rd Edition, 27/3/99.

Growing opposition to industrial shrimp farming
By: María L. Cruz-Torres, "Pink Gold Rush: Shrimp Aquaculture, Sustainable Development, and the Environment in Northwestern Mexico", Journal of Political Ecology Vol. 7, 2000,
http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_7/Cruz00.pdf

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