Marine scientist and mangrove expert Jurgenne Primavera says planting mangroves on seagrass beds is 'an ecological scandal'
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According to the post, over 60 volunteers, including Cathay employees and their partners, helped plant 5,000 mangrove seedlings in Carcar — “one tree for every flight ticket sold and every tonne of cargo shipped with Cathay Cargo during the campaign.”,” with Mangrove Matters PH — a group of young Filipino mangrove advocates — penning an open letter to the airline to raise its concerns.
Matthew Vincent Tabilog, founder of Mangrove Matters PH, said seagrass meadows are sources of livelihood and food for the country’s coastal communities. She added: “Secondly, with sea level rise coming surely , coastal seawater levels will grow deeper, making the habitat suitable for subtidal plants like seagrasses. Intertidal trees, like mangroves, will drown because they need the tidal ebb and flow, with 70% of the time emerging above the water to survive.”or the Rhizophora species of mangroves may either die within a year because they are the wrong species in the wrong place.
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