Innovative project helps women conserve mangroves

Innovative project helps women conserve mangroves,
SciDevNet,

[YAOUNDE] About 400 women in Cameroon's coastal zones are contributing to environmental conservation by smoking fish with fish scales and kitchen waste as alternatives to using wood from mangrove forests.

In Cameroon, mangrove forests - made up of salt-tolerant trees and shrubs found between small streams and the sea - are in danger of becoming extinct because of the tendency of women to harvest them for smoking fish.