Mangroves are extremely important to the coastal ecosystems they inhabit. Several species are listed as vulnerable or endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Therefore, this book aims to give an account of first-hand information on the current status of mangroves covering various aspects of the respective States of the World. This information will help evolve common strategic plans for global conservation and restoration of mangrove forests. The Nature Conservators (TNC) has been doing mangrove restoration work for decades, in countries from Mexico to Indonesia, but we need to expand our efforts. The present book is a collection of comprehensive information on the status of the mangrove forests of different States of the world. Such collective information at one look would help us to evolve common strategic plans for the conservation and restoration of lost mangrove forests and biodiversity for the benefit of not only humankind but also for the restoration of lost plant and animal biodiversity. The strategic plans for conservation and restoration may promote advanced research in this field.
Dr A D Diwan is the former Assistant Director General (ADG) in the Fisheries Division of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Before assuming this position, he was a Professor and Head of the Fish Genetics & Biotechnology Division and a Dean (Faculty of Fishery Science) at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE), a Deemed University, in Mumbai, India. Dr S N Hark is the founder and Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Technology under Mahatma Gandhi Mission University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. He specializes in the fields of biotechnology, biochemistry, molecular biology, gene technology, synthetic biology, and computational biology. Dr B. N. Pande is a former Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. After his superannuation in 2008, he joined as an emeritus Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Mahatma Gandhi University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.Dr Archana Panche is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biosciences & Technology under Mahatma Gandhi Mission University, Aurangabad. Earlier she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark.
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