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Almost 20 years after the tsunami, Andaman’s mangroves are still changing

Photo by Nehru Prabakaran
Mangrove colonisation at the uplifted reef beds across the west coast of North Andaman provides optimism for ecosystem resilience and recovery.
The Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) is working to understand the resilience of mangroves, especially to SLR. “India has witnessed an SLR of 4.5 millimetres (mm) per year from 2013 to 2022, while the global average over the last three decades is 3.4 mm per year,” says Samakshi Tiwari, a research fellow at CIFOR-ICRAF. “We’re conducting long-term monitoring at several mangrove sites across India to understand sediment dynamics using rod surface elevation tables (rSETs). We have established 17 monitoring sites in the Andamans, 20 in the Sundarbans and 10 in Coringa, and will soon have data from them. Installation of rSETs was done in collaboration with respective forest departments and institutions such as WII (Andamans); M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (Coringa); and Indian Institutes of Science, Education and Research along with West Bengal State College (Sundarbans).”
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