When you look at a photo of basic animal traits, you rarely expect surprises. Our educational background has taught us the answers as children. Researchers in Hong Kong, China have made a discovery ...

Crabs love mangrove swamps. But the mangroves may not love them back. Crabs’ voracious appetite for mangrove seeds can be a prime reason why efforts to replant lost mangroves often fail. So keeping ...

A new species of mangrove-climbing micro-crab from Hong Kong, Haberma tingkok, has recently been discovered, described and named. The Mangrove Ecology and Evolution Lab, led by Dr Stefano Cannicci at ...

March 21 (UPI) --Crabs do more than swim and scuttle across the beach. They climb trees. Scientists found a new species of mangrove crab climbing in trees along the eastern coast of Hong Kong.

In the northern Vietnam province of Thanh Hoa, fishers venture out into the mangrove forests to set their traps. The fishers use fyke nets strung between mangrove trees to catch wild shrimp and fish ...

Mangrove destruction not only comes with ecological cost, but monetary as well: $37,500 per hectare each year, researchers say. Mexican mangroves, trees that form forest ecosystems at the land-sea ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the village of Tramataia, Brazil crab-pickers, or caranguejeiros, walk to the shoreline at night with an offering of tobacco to Father Mangrove.

Since its inception in 2014, Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation has been able to ensure conservation of 117 ha of mangroves in the Gazi bay. In addition, the group through the technical ...

In the northern Vietnam province of Thanh Hoa, fishers venture out into the mangrove forests to set their traps. The fishers use fyke nets strung between mangrove trees to catch wild shrimp and fish ...