Before the pandemic, he tried farming mud crab in mangrove aquaculture, but the venture failed. "I suffered a huge loss, and I am in debt because of it," he says.

In mangrove habitats, it's found among the muddy tree roots, where it lives in J-shaped burrows, that can be up to 2m (6.6ft) deep. The women of the mangroves are united and now they protect the ...

They helped us build suitable cages under the mangrove to start our crab farm. As soon as we started, we had a ready market in hotels in the coastal town," said Mizinga.

Parasesarma plicatum, a common sesarmid crab in mangrove habitats of India, always climbs onto the mangrove vegetation during high tide. We studied whether this temporal niche shifting of the crab is ...

Mangrove trees, appearing to float over wetlands where they thrive, left an impression on Awuor Owuor. She had never seen a tree with roots completely exposed and, as she describes, “funny in ...

Ministry of Crab restaurant partners with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka through the Global Environment Facility funded Small Grants Programme (SGP) in the Mannar ...

No crab home than I know the next tree I can find crab at,” she said. “Or if I don’t recognise the mangrove trees I know that I have drifted far from the usual fishing ground and I start calling out ...