Review of the Total Economic Value of Mangroves Bordering the South China Sea and Finalisation of Mangrove Inputs to the Regional Strategic Action Programme

The 8th Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Mangroves was convened in Koh Kong, Cambodia from 19th-22nd April 2007. Important items considered by the group include: the status of finalization, adoption, and implementation of the National Actions Plans; the South China Sea Project Regional Training Course on Mangroves; progress in the implementation and completion of the mangrove demonstration site activities; consideration of the regional economic values and total economic values for mangroves; and mangrove component inputs to the revised regional Strategic Action Programme for the South China Sea. Please click here to access the report of the Eighth Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Mangroves.

 

The following is a small collection of photos from the Eighth Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Mangroves: 

^ The Regional Working Group on Mangroves in the Peam Krasop Mangrove/Wetland Demonstration Site


^ Travelling to the Eighth Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Mangroves


^ Members of the Regional Working Group on Mangroves buying Durian in Koh Province Cambodia


^ A South China Sea mangrove good – Lingula (a brachiopod and sole surviving member of a once flourishing phylum, the so-called lamp shells). It is found in muddy substrata in the tropics and sub-tropics often in association with sipunculid worms.


^ Members of the Regional Working Group on Wetlands with young mangrove enthusiasts in the Peam Krasop Mangrove/Wetland Demonstration Site

Please visit the mangrove photo gallery for more images of the work of the Regional Working Group on Mangroves and the suite of Mangrove Habitat Demonstration Sites established under the UNEP/GEF South China Sea Project.