Interés Humano

Egipto rescata sus manglares para luchar contra el cambio climático

El Cairo dedica cada año unos $50.000 a la reforestación de estos ecosistemas que filtran la contaminación del agua, protegen de las temperaturas extremas y forman una barrera natural contra la crecida de las aguas

Workers replant mangrove trees at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt's southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. - On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly-planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totalling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of only a few hundred football pitches. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Workers replant mangrove trees at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt's southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. - On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly-planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totalling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of only a few hundred football pitches. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) KHALED DESOUKI
Sayed Khalifa, el director del Sindicato Egipcio de Agricultura que dirige un programa de reforestación de los manglares, muestra un puñado de frutos de manglar durante una visita a la costa sur del Mar Rojo egipcio. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP)

Cairo. En una orilla soleada del mar Rojo, los peces vuelven a nadar entre miles de manglares, un ecosistema que Egipto trata de salvar para preservar su biodiversidad y luchar contra el cambio climático.

“Es todo un ecosistema: al plantar un manglar, traemos vida marina, crustáceos y pájaros”, explica a la AFP Sayed Jalifa, profesor de agricultura.

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