GREENLIFE West Africa Trains Mangrove Restoration Committees and Tree Tracking Monitors in Yawri Bay, Coastal Sierra Leone
Aboveground carbon in pristine mangroves in Sierra Leone exceeds estimates in most other African countries. However, the Yawri Bay coastal landscape in Sierra Leone faces significant mangrove degradation due to unsustainable harvesting of mangrove wood for domestic use and rice farming, undercutting the country’s potential to sequester carbon and support the fight against global warming.