The Mangrove Restoration Project focuses on restoring mangroves along Jamaica's coastline to provide essential ecosystem services and protect against environmental degradation.

This project aims to restore mangroves along the 40 km coastline in South Clarendon, which are crucial for providing ecosystem services and combating climate change.

Along the south coast of Jamaica there is about a 50 km long coastline that ought to have healthy mangroves for all the ecosystem services these marine forests provide. However of the >3500 hectares of mangroves along this coast,

>1600 are dead and much of the rest is imperilled. Major contributors to the death of the mangroves include, changes in hydrology arising from coastline alterations after large

storms, falloff in agriculture and hence irrigation water flows, human impact through ill-conceived engineering works such as roads and train tracks that bisect mangroves; and last, not least, and an important factor for sustainability of the mangroves after we have rehabilitated them…..felling of mangroves trees to produce charcoal by local communities. Thus we have launched a project to use site specific diagnostics, to inform restorative interventions.

A grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has provided support (2020-2027) for UWI SODECO SFS to develop and execute a project to sustainably restore where damaged these large acreages of mangroves in southern Clarendon. UWI SODECO is also collaborating with GOJ and the private sector to raise resources to invest in enhancing the resilience of the people in this south Clarendon area.

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