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A Mangrove Learning Centre IUCN (International Union for
has been built to increase Conservation of Nature)-Bonn
awareness and boost tourism Challenge, India has committed
in the Kori Creek Area and to to restoration of degraded
make tourists aware about ecosystems, including mangrove
the mangrove ecosystem blanks and degraded mangrove
and its benefits/contribution areas. The GOI (Government
to climate change and local of India) programme, MISTHI
communities. Various structures (Mangrove Initiative for
such as Interpretation Centre, Shoreline Habitats and Tangible
Gazebo, Watch Tower, Pathway, Incomes) launched in 2023 is an
Auditorium Hall are constructed umbrella scheme for mangrove
at the Mangrove Learning Centre plantation which aims to create
to attract tourists. a reliable ‘Green wall’, along the
Mangrove Conservation Dholera coast, which protects
at Dholera and environmental the coastline from the vagaries
sustainability and coastal of weather effects.
protection: Strategies and Methods
In line with the ongoing UN adopted by Gujarat Forest
(United Nations) decade on Department:
ecosystem restoration, and the Based on the mangrove
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