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Tropical wetlands: Mangroves and carbon

Mangrove forests store 3-4x the carbon of land based tropical forests.
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The estimated 15 million hectares of mangrove forests in the world store 20 billion metric tons of carbon. Get the latest news and research on tropical mangroves at forestsnews.cifor.org/wetlands.

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