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by Illegal Knowledge "Everything we should have known, but were never supposed to find out..."

The Greenbelt Reports: Greenbelts and Lifebelts

by TVE Asia Pacific — August 10, 2009 Advised by scientists, coastal communities are restoring or replanting mangrove forests as a 'bio-shield' against natural disasters and sea level rise.

The Greenbelt Reports: Surround Sand

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 02, 2009 Sand dunes can protect coastal villages from cyclones and wave action. In two Indian states, efforts are underway to strengthen sand dunes as a means of natural protection for vulnerable communities.

The Greenbelt Reports: Live and Let Live

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 02, 2009 Protecting mangroves need not always mean banning local people from deriving benefits. Different approaches to community-mangrove co-existence have been adopted in two locations in India.

The Greenbelt Reports: Love Thy Mangrove

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 02, 2009 The indigenous Moken people -- or sea gypsies - have always looked after mangroves on the Pra Thong island in southern Thailand. We find out how they are working to restore and protect the island's mangroves after the tsunami.

The Greenbelt Reports: Trees of Life

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 02, 2009 Returning 18 months later to the first point on Sri Lanka the Asian Tsunami hit, we find local people busy building a coastal greenbelt. The area is also being re-greened through home gardens and organic farming.

The Greenbelt Reports: Reef Relief

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 02, 2009 Human and natural factors exert many pressures on coral reefs. A group of young divers is regenerating one damaged reef, giving nature a helping hand.

The Greenbelt Reports: Mangroves Are Forever

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 02, 2009 Shrimp farming damaged and degraded mangroves around the Kalpitiya lagoon. After the industry collapsed, the community joined hands with a conservation group to restore the mangroves, some of which is harvested.

The Greenbelt Reports: Saved by Sand

by TVE Asia Pacific — September 01, 2009 While surrounding villages were devastated by the Tsunami, Paanama suffered only minor damage thanks to sand dunes on one side and thick mangroves on the other. This inspired villagers to undertake restoration and conservation activity.

Small Islands, Big Impact

by TVE Asia Pacific — October 26, 2009 Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, sees climate change as both a human rights issue and a security threat. On the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, he makes an earnest appeal for the world to defend the frontline states, such as his.

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