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Swampy mangrove forests -- essential breeding grounds for fish and shellfish in these countries -- are being destroyed by worsening pollution, encroaching real estate development, and deforestation necessary to sustain large-scale commercial shrimp farming. The decline of these forests threatens much of Africa's coastal food supply and economy. The destruction of mangroves -- one of Earth's richest natural resources - also has implications for everything from climate change to biodiversity to the quality of life on Earth. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory]
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