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Community-based mangrove restoration in the Sundarbans (Livelihoods-NEWS project)

📍 India · 2011 · Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS)

Scale

local

subnational

national

systemic

Description

Community-based climate adaptation initiative in the Sundarbans archipelago, West Bengal. Led by the Indian NGO Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS) with funding from the Livelihoods Fund, since 2011 it has planted more than 16 million mangroves, organizing village women in restoration and in alternative livelihoods (beekeeping, crab aquaculture, climate-smart agriculture, the Badabon Harvest brand created in 2018). The restored mangroves acted as a bio-shield protecting embankments and communities during cyclones such as Amphan (2020).

Linked evidence

▦Building Capacities for Augmenting Livelihood to Sustain the Mangrove Stewardship of Women in the Indian Sundarbans to Adapt to Climate ChangeCentre for Responsible Business · 2025Evidence ▦INDIA (Sundarbans): 16 million mangrove trees to protect local communitiesLivelihoods Funds · 2020Evidence