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The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project By becoming the first country to protect ALL its mangroves, Sri Lanka is taking unprecedented action to fight climate change. SEACOLOGY The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project PROTECTING SRI LANKA’S MANGROVES History made in Sri Lanka n May 12, 2015, a precedent- setting deal was struck Oin Sri Lanka. Seacology, Sri Lanka-based NGO Sudeesa (formerly known as Small Fishers Federation of Lanka), and that nation’s government announced a new and unique partnership that is making Sri Lanka the world’s rst country to protect all of its mangrove forests. Sri Lanka is the 25th largest island in the world and is home to more than 21,000 acres (8,815 hectares) of intact mangroves. These trees, which put down their roots in brackish water along Sri Lanka’s shorelines, serve important ecological and economic functions. They are important to maintaining Sri Lanka’s biodiversity and vital shing economy, they provide All of Sri Lanka’s more than 21,000 acres of intact mangrove forests are now protected by the protection against storm damage Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project. for the tsunami-prone island nation, and they are a vital tool for mitigating climate change 21,782 9,600 (see sidebar). Existing acres protected Acres replanted Our means for achieving this The project was based on their mangroves. A number of ambitious goal are a true Sudeesa’s program oering mangrove nurseries, three of which representation of the win-win economic opportunities to low- are now operating, will propagate model Seacology has developed income women in exchange all 22 species of mangroves native in our more than two decades for their active conservation of to Sri Lanka, and the seedlings will of conservation work. Sudeesa, mangroves. be replanted in coastal areas that an organization with a long and were once densely forested. Since proven track record, will provide The partnership with Seacology the 19th century, nearly three- microloans and job training to scales up this model, previously quarters of Sri Lanka’s mangrove thousands of disadvantaged oered only in Sudeesa’s home habitat has been lost, having been coastal Sri Lankans, primarily district, to the whole nation, cleared for use as shrimp farms or women. In exchange, communities to protect all the country’s damaged in Sri Lanka’s devastating that otherwise might cut down remaining mangrove forests. It civil war. mangroves to survive agree to is also restoring thousands of protect mangroves. acres that had been cleared of While not receiving project funds, The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project PROTECTING SRI LANKA’S MANGROVES Essential importance of mangroves Members of the Sri Lankan navy join Seacology and Sudeesa personnel and local women to plant mangrove seedlings grown in nurseries established Mangroves provide shelter for young by the project. sh, many of which go on to populate coral reefs. These sheries provide essential nourishment and commerce for coastal communities. Sri Lanka’s then- environmental secretary Nihal Rupasinghe Mangroves reduce storm damage to and Seacology coastal communities by dissipating the Executive Director energy of wind and waves. Duane Silverstein after signing the agreement. 1,500 15,000 Communities served Microloan recipients Mangroves absorb atmospheric carbon— far more than other types of forests—and trap it in the soil around their roots. They the Sri Lankan government is an institutions, private institutions, can absorb 3-5 times more carbon than active partner in the conservation non-government organizations, other types of forests, making them critical to ghting global warming. eort. The Environment Ministry researchers, intelligentsia, and has agreed to demarcate and civil community to be united to Carbon sequestration: establish legal protection for all protect the mangrove ecosystem,” Mangroves vs. other ecosystems of Sri Lanka’s mangroves, and is said Sri Lanka’s president, providing rangers to patrol the Maithripala Sirisena, at the Seagrasses newly protected areas. The Sri project’s launch in 2015. “I highly Salt Marshes Lankan navy has also volunteered appreciate and admire the joint Estuarine to assist the restoration eort and eort made by the international Mangroves Oceanic has already planted thousands of non-governmental organizations Mangroves Tropical seedlings. Seacology and the Small Fishers Forest Federation of Lanka to conserve 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 “It is the responsibility and the the mangrove ecosystem of Sri Tons of CO2 eq absorbed per hectare necessity of all government Lanka.” Soil organic carbon Living biomass The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project IMPROVING LIVES IN SRI LANKA Investing in the future of the Sri Lankan people eacology projects Some beneciaries of our project are designed to Sbe win-wins: Both the environment and the local community partners benet, and the community and economic benets reinforce and incentivize the ecological ones. While the Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project is much larger in Jospin Kristina Kumari lives in Samidigama Village, Ivon Sama Perera, 55, was born in a shing family both cost and scope than in the Puttlam District of Sri Lanka. She was living in Bathalangunduwa, an area aected by the in poverty with four children, a sick husband, and war, and had to ee to Wannimundalama with the average Seacology no regular source of income. She joined Sudeesa her husband, leaving their shing gear behind. project, this same win- and received training on running a bakery. Jospin This meant losing their income from shing; her win model applies. was able to get a small business loan to set up a husband also fell ill and was unable to work, and bakery of her own and now employs three other Sama took on the responsibility of supporting the members of the community. In the future, she family. She started production of snack foods with The project builds upon hopes to expand her bakery’s product line. She is a 10,000-rupee microloan after receiving training a program that our a member of her village organization that protects from the Seacology Sudeesa Sri Lanka Mangrove local mangrove forests. Conservation Project. partner NGO, Sudeesa, has successfully run for more than 20 years, providing skills training and microloans to economically disadvantaged women. With the additional funds provided by Seacology, this program is being expanded nationwide, and these services will be oered Thavanesan Rageshwary, 54, ran a small retail Jeewanthi Mallawarachchi, 32, married into in 1,500 communities shop at Vidathaltheevu in Mannar district before a shing family. After receiving training she joining the Seacology-Sudeesa Sri Lanka Mangrove developed her skills to dry and process sh in a around the island nation. Conservation Program. After attending a three- more hygienic way. There is a high demand for her day training, she obtained a 10,000-rupee (about dried sh, and she is processing it more eciently Since the launch of the US $70) microloan and expanded her business, after receiving the training, she says. She used a adding food items. She now earns an additional microloan provided from the Seacology Sudeesa Sri project, we’ve been able 5,000 rupees per month and intends to expand her Lanka Mangrove Conservation program to improve to increase the size of business again using her new management skills. her business. the microloans oered from $45 to $80 each. Lanka. With a small cash mangroves for rewood Also funded by While this amount may infusion, thousands in times of desperation, the project is the seem small by Western of coastal Sri Lankan can open a small Seacology-Sudeesa standards, it can be women, many of whom business or expand an Mangrove Museum in life-changing in Sri had turned to harvesting existing one. Pambala, at Sudeesa’s The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project IMPROVING LIVES IN SRI LANKA Investing in the future of the Sri Lankan people The Seacology-Sudeesa Mangrove Museum A major component of the project is the world’s rst mangrove museum, located in Pambala, adjacent to Sudeesa’s headquarters. The recently opened facility is a state-of-the-art educational facility that introduces guests to the myriad ecological and economic benets of healthy mangrove forests. Sudeesa anticipates more than 20,000 annual visitors, mostly schoolchildren. A group of Sri Lankan youths tours the museum. The facility is integrated into the area’s natural mangrove forest, which can be viewed through its large windows. With members of Seacology and Sudeesa in attendance, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena cuts the ribbon at the ocial open- ing of the museum on July 26, 2016, World Mangrove Day. headquarters. The tourists and locals economic importance destination for student rst-of-its-kind facility, alike about Sri Lanka’s of maintaining those eld trips, and Sudeesa which opened in July mangrove forests, and habitats. The museum anticipates over 20,000 2016, serves to educate the ecological and is already a popular visitors a year. The Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project REACTIONS and MEDIA COVERAGE Sri Lanka is showing the world that it is possible to More than half the world’s “ conserve mangrove forests whilst also improving “ mangroves have been lost over the lives of local people, restoring wildlife habitats, the last century but all of those and helping to ameliorate climate change. is surviving in Sri Lanka, one of their inspirational project is an excellent example of what most important havens, are now to can be achieved for mangrove forest protection. We be protected in an unprecedented hope that other countries with mangrove forests will operation. e organiser of the follow Sri Lanka’s lead and replicate the success of project, the biggest of its kind, see this model.” the role of women as the key to its — Dhammika Wijayasinghe, Secretary General, success.” Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO — e Guardian Mangroves are considered to be one of the world’s most at-risk habitats, with more than “ half being lost or destroyed in the past century.
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