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Along the coastline of Sierra Leone, disappearing mangrove forests are threatening the livelihoods of oyster harvesters who have depended on them for generations. Women who once collected oysters directly from mangrove roots now wade deep into muddy waters as oyster populations decline.

Mangroves are critical ecosystems that protect coastlines from erosion, flooding and climate change while supporting biodiversity and food security. But rapid urbanisation, deforestation and land reclamation around Freetown and nearby coastal communities have destroyed large areas of mangrove cover.

This video explores how climate change and human expansion are impacting Sierra Leone’s oyster farming communities, while activists and conservation groups work on mangrove restoration and sustainable oyster farming projects to protect the future.

Watch powerful visuals from Sussex Beach, White Man’s Bay, Aberdeen Creek and Kolleh Town as local communities fight to preserve their coastline and way of life.

In this video:
00:00 – Sierra Leone’s mangrove forests rapidly disappearing
00:40 – Women oyster farmers struggle as oyster populations decline
01:20 – Conservation groups push mangrove restoration projects

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00:09A good day
00:42Before, they entered the water to pull oyster, because when you look at the mango-mango,
00:48the oyster is cold, so there is no need to enter the water to pull oyster.
00:54Because if the mango-mango, you just chop, chop, chop, it will flop, it will go.
00:57But now, in order again, just like I look at the river, in order to enter the water before
01:04we get oyster for Kegu.
01:22All the mangoes were caught, because people are wanting to migrate, and
01:27on planned urbanization, there was no land availability, and people were now looking
01:31for, searching for land, trying to reclaim land around the coastal area, in a particular
01:36community, and they caught all the mangroves.
01:39So now that they are living there, we are now faced a challenge with coastal erosion, flooding,
01:50and a lot of heat wave threats that we are facing, and lots of biodiversity.
01:54we are facing.
02:30Today we're here putting up oyster racks and bamboo rafts.
02:35So we're trying to bring an alternative sustainable livelihood to coastal community people living
02:40at Kuala Town.
02:42Over the years we've been doing mangroove restoration and conservation and if you can
02:46see at my back here we have a massive mangroove restoration that is going on.
02:59It is important to note that if we don't protect our mangroves millions of coastal residents
03:04around the world including Kuala Town are at risk of not having sustainable livelihood.
03:09So as such with this oyster farm they will be able to generate money to support their different
03:13households and also boost the food security system of this particular country.
03:24For more information, visit www.kuala Town. We will reach out to have a window.
03:26For more information visit www.kuala Town. We can look forward with our local plume
03:27and monitor your own landscape.
03:27Our local province will be able to build facilities at the edge of the world.
03:27You
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