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Burma's mangrove forests (4:45)


May 7, 2008
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Burma's mangroves have buffered the country from the worst effects of natural disasters. Now that the mangrove forests have been cleared away to make way for shrimp and fish farms, cyclones like the one that struck days ago are even more devastating. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from Jeffrey McNeely, the chief scientist for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.


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