Tips for practice
20. Conservation of nursery areas for fish through mangrove planting
In the village of Djirnda in the Saloum Delta, women began voluntarily planting mangroves around 1990. They felt that the mangroves around their village were deteriorating and that fishing was declining. The mangroves planted by the women grew to 1 to 2-meter tall in the first ten years. The mangrove planting initiated by the village women was supported by a JICA project as they wanted to expand their mangrove forest.