The Mangrove Restoration and Management Department was started in 2010 as the Mangrove Restoration Project and was aimed at restoring the number of mangroves along the coastline that have throughout the years been diminished through cutting down or other various natural phenomenon. It so happens that sometimes as the coastline is washed and silt is taken away through erosion, some of the mangroves end up dying and as such there is further loss due to the absence of the mangroves that hold the soil together. The Mangrove Restoration Project’s main goal was to prevent further erosion by planting more mangroves. Over the past few years, it has been able to plant over 500,000 seedlings across the length and breadth of Guyana’s coastline.
Enabling it to plant 500,000 seedlings over the last six years the Department used its Community Management. The residents in communities were contracted and paid to grow the seedlings and also to participate in placing the plants at particular sites.
The rest now is left to nature. The plants are assured to continue growing and to help in preventing mass erosion of the coastline.
