Saving one of the earth's green lungs - Indonesia's mangrove forests


About three million hectares of mangrove forests can be found along 95,000km of Indonesia's coastal areas. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Antara News): Indonesia, home to one of the world's largest mangrove forests, has set a target of rehabilitating 150,000ha of its area under mangroves this year.

Based on data recorded in 2011, about three million ha of mangrove forests can be found along 95,000km of Indonesia's coastal areas, constituting 23 per cent of the world's mangrove ecosystem.

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