Saving Grand Bahama’s Mangrove Forest

An unprecedented group effort seeks to restore what was lost after Hurricane Dorian—one mangrove at a time.

Dorian destroyed 73 percent of the mangroves on Grand Bahama and nearly half the mangroves on the Abaco Islands. All told, the hurricane’s winds stripped sixty-nine square miles of mangroves of their leaves—more than forty-four thousand acres—then smothered them in saltwater for days.

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