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Sustainably managed mangroves can provide ecosystem services such as coastal protection, food and medicines as well as carbon storage, positively impacting both biodiversity and human well-being. The IUCN Global Standard for NbS provides a tool to help ensure that projects labelled as Nature-based Solutions - for example through restoration of mangroves - do indeed deliver the anticipated benefits to both society and biodiversity.
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island, Japan
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Cape Tribulation, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia
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Nearly 17% of the planet's land areas are protected today. While the overall quality of the protected area network must be improved, there are exemplary, effective sites such as Al Shouf Cedar Reserve in Lebanon, which has achieved the IUCN's coveted Green List status.
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The Open Project Portal allows open, comprehensive public access to data on IUCN's work in over 125 countries and territories.
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Shar Mountains, North Macedonia
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Vjosa River Valley, Albania (c) Gernot Kunz
Photo: Gernot Kunz
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