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Opinion: mangrove restoration needs outcome metrics critics can audit

By Thilini Rajapaksa

May 9, 2026 5:59 PM GMT+0 Updated yesterday

Planting selfies make great reels; hectares gained not always net. THELEDGER/RAJAPAKSA Purchase Licensing Rights ↗

May 9 (TheLedger) - Open data on shoreline accretion and salinity deltas should accompany every glossy ribbon cutting.

Otherwise we're cultivating donor theatre, not ecology.

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