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- Title
Issues in sustainable mangrove conservation and management : The case of Malaysia.
- Authors
FARIDAH-HANUM, I.; LATIFF, A.
- Abstract
Mangroves support a rich biodiversity and provide a range of provisioning, regulating and supporting services which are crucial for the livelihood of local communities. In Malaysia, socio-economic forestry and fishery have been coexisting harmoniously for generations and have minimal impact on the ecosystem. However, with the recent resurgence of interests in aquaculture and agriculture, many areas of the inland and estuarine mangrove forests had paved ways for these economic activities with some concomitant loss to the mangrove biodiversity and ecosystem services. These unsustainable anthropogenic activities that continue to undermine the health of the ecosystem resulting in environmental adversities and declining resources not only affect nature's contribution to people but also to the country. Many tropical countries including Malaysia have considered the sustainable management of mangroves as major priorities in biodiversity conservation and management. However, this has met with only some successes. Mangrove health, drivers of ecosystem change, forest fragmentation, socio-economic livelihood, economic revenues and ownership are among the challenging issues affecting sustainability in mangrove conservation and management that will be addressed.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; MANGROVE ecology; ECOSYSTEM health; MANGROVE plants; MANGROVE forests; BIODIVERSITY conservation; ECOSYSTEM services
- Publication
Malayan Nature Journal, 2020, Vol 72, Issue 4, p417
- ISSN
0025-1291
- Publication type
Article