Australia: NT traditional owners urge climate change policy makers to witness mangrove devastation

By Jane Bardon

Traditional owners are devastated by the lack of recovery at the site of Australia's worst recorded mangrove dieback and are calling for action to limit climate change threats.

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The mangroves were once nurseries for the mud crab, barramundi and prawn fisheries, but now consist mainly of dead trees and dusty earth.

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"We can't see any other driver of the dieback other than the extreme climatic envelope has shifted," Charles Darwin University professor Lindsay Hutley said.

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"If we give mangroves space, the whole forest can move landward, until they hit manmade barriers, and then they are at risk of drowning.

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