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- The report, Red List of Mangrove Ecosystems, is the first global mangrove assessment for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- It warns that half of the world’s mangrove ecosystems run the risk of collapse.
- The report shows that 50% of the mangrove ecosystems assessed are at risk of collapse.
- Under business as usual, 25% of the global mangrove area is predicted to be submerged in the next 50 Years.
- By 2050 about ~7,065 km2 (-5%) more mangroves will be lost and ~23,672 km2 (-16%) will be submerged.
- Indian mangrove ecosystems have been bunched into three parts.
- The ecosystems in the Bay of Bengal region shared by India and Bangladesh and those in the west shared by India and Pakistan are in the least concerned category.
- However, the mangrove ecosystem in the south, which India shares with Sri Lanka and Maldives, is categorised as critically endangered.
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