Mangrove Restoration Activity
- Category: Restoration
- Partner: Kishoka Youth Organisation and SOA Kenya
- Project date: 26 July, 2023
- project URL : Click Here
Important Take Aways From The Event
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There exists about 60-70 species of mangroves in the world. Only 9 of these species are available along the Kenyan Coast.
- The most common species of mangrove in Kenya is Rhizophora mucronata locally reffered to us Mikoko
- Other dominant species of mangrove in kenya includes; Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, Ceriops tagal ,Avicennia marina and Sonneratia alba
- On this particular activity, we managed to plant Ceriops tagal and Rhizophora mucronata species of mangrove.