CEBU CITY, Philippines-Central Visayas gained 304 hectares of mangroves between 2015 and 2020. Its total of 19,333 hectares in 2020 represented some 6.2 percent of the national mangrove stock that spanned 311,216 hectares. These details form part of the Mangrove Extent Accounts, the first in a series released starting this year by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). “In 2020, the Philippines’ total mangrove extent reached 311,216 hectares (ha), a 2.8 percent increase from 302,811 ha in 2015,” the PSA said in a statement on Monday, December 22. Nature-based solutions to flooding However, the national total in 2020 represented only 1.1 […]... Keep on reading: Environmental accounting: Central Visayas hosts some 6.2% of nation's mangroves