• Ecuador: Government will hand over mangroves belonging to the Ecuadorian people to the shrimp farming industry
• Current status and conservation of mangroves in Africa: An overview
• Mangrove Loss and Climate Change—A Global Perspective français português
• Burma: Cyclone proved the failure of “development” based on mangrove destructio

Bulletin nº 51 - October 2001 (complete version)
There are clearly two conflicting international agendas, one positive and another negative. The former, officialized in international fora such as the 1992 Earth Summit and its related conventions and processes, is aimed at the sustainable use of resources for the benefit of the present and future generations. But there is another international agenda, aimed at increasing production, trade and consumption of all types of products, regardless of their sustainability, for the benefit of private business and governments. Industrial shrimp farming constitutes an example of how local people try desperately to implement the former agenda, while governments, corporations and international financial institutions support the latter.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

*The relevance of mangrove forests to African fisheries, wildlife and water resources - FAO Regional Office for Africa, 2009

*Worldwide Protest Against WWF’s Plans to Launch Aquaculture Stewardship Council - 14th May 2009

* Open letter from Civil Society organisations to the World Bank - May 2005

* Farming the Sea, Costing the Earth
report by Environmental Justice Foundation - May 2004

* The Mangrove Forest
Mangrove Action Project Working Paper by Alfredo Quarto

* Mangroves: Life on the Edge
by Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project

* China’s Mangrove Forests of the Leizhou Peninsula
by Alfredo Quarto - Mangrove Action Project
February 2003

* Large Scale Shrimp Farming and Impacts on women
by P. Raja Siregar - Campaigner of WALHI (Friends of The Earth- Indonesia) and Coordinator of Coalition of Anti-Debt Movement.

* Action Alert 2003: July 26: "Save the Mangroves" day
by MAP (Mangrove Action Project).

* Protesta mundial de los pescadores en contra de la industria del camaron: 26 de Julio "Dia Internacional de la Defensa del Ecosistema Manglar" por ASPROCIG y AUNISAN

* Conflict, corruption and human rights abuses in the shrimp farming industry.
Environmental Justice Foundation

* BBC online feature on impacts of shrimp consumption, farming and fishing
by Julia Hailes, January 2003

* International Shame! - CODDEFFAGOLF Public Manifestation - ( background information )
January 2003

* Environmentally Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture
Late Friday News, 94th Edition

* Los impactos de la actividad camaronera en Champerico, Retalhuleu, Guatemala. por Asociación de Vecinos de Desarrollo Integral de Champerico y  Trópico Verde – ParksWatch Guatemala (only in Spanish)

* Ecological Conflicts and Valuation - mangroves vs. shrimp in the late 1990s
by Joan Martinez-Alier, Department of Economics and Economic History - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

* Campaña "SOS" manglares en peligro de extinción: manglares, los bosques salados  / estudios de caso / química y acuicultura.
by Greenpeace Spain (only in Spanish)

* The Devastating Delicacy: The Explosion of Shrimp Farming and the Negative Impacts on People and the Environment 
by Greenpeace USA

* Shrimp Farming does not Reduce Rural Poverty
by Jasper Goss

* Oil extraction in the Mangroves - TEGANTAI No. 10, Oilwatch Network bulletin, December 1997
 

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PHOTOS

LINKS

Réseau Africain de la Mangrove - RAM
http://www.mangrove-africa.net/

Mangrove Action Project
http://www.mangroveactionproject.org/

Fundación de Defensa Ecológica Ecuador
http://www.fundecol.org/

Shrimp Sentinel Online
http://www.earthsummitwatch.org/shrimp/

Red Manglar
http://www.redmanglar.org/

Acción Ecológica - Campaña Manglares
http://www.accionecologica.org/armangla.htm

Mangrove Environmental Protection Group
http://www.elmanglar.com/

Campaña "Salvemos el mangar"
Coordinadora Nacional para la Defensa del Manglar - Ecuador
http://www.galeon.com/salvemosalmanglar/docs/archivos/index.htm

West African Association for Marine Environment
http://www.waame.sn/new/