Nurturing nature

Kenyan communities bring once-declining mangrove forests back to life

Updated: 2025-09-09 09:54

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Women from community groups working on mangrove restoration carry seedlings in buckets on their heads from local nurseries ahead of a planting operation in a deforested patch in Mida Creek, near Watamu, a small town close to the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, on Aug 4. LUIS TATO/AFP

Under the scorching afternoon sun, the semiarid landscape of Marereni in Kenya's Kilifi County stretches into the distance — a place where salt and sea have long shaped both the land and the lives of those who depend on it. Renowned for its extensive salt production, this remote settlement lies at the heart of the country's north coast salt belt.

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