Dominican Republic · Sánchez · See the Dominican Republic profile
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Global Nature Fund and the TUI Care Foundation, with local partner CEBSE, have restored 100+ hectares of mangrove in the Manglares del Bajo Yuna National Park near Sánchez since 2023, adding to 80 ha renaturalised earlier, to buffer Samaná Bay from coastal erosion and storms.
The Dominican Republic's Samaná Bay coast, and the Manglares del Bajo Yuna National Park in particular, has lost mangrove cover to encroachment and degradation, even though roughly 70% of the country's population lives in areas exposed to flooding and severe storms, and mangroves are estimated to be worth USD 23,000–45,000 per hectare in avoided storm-surge damage. Since September 2023, the German NGO Global Nature Fund and the TUI Care Foundation, working with the local partner CEBSE, have been restoring mangrove forest in and around the national park near Sánchez.
The project has restored more than 100 hectares of mangrove forest since 2023, building on roughly 80 hectares renaturalised on the Samaná coast in an earlier phase. It has also trained 20 local guides as qualified tourism guides and added a suspension bridge and nature trail to support alternative livelihoods.
The partners report a longer-term target of restoring over 200 hectares within the roughly 92,000-hectare protected area. The restoration is corporate-foundation financed and still short-running, with no independently published evaluation of survival rates, erosion reduction or storm-damage avoidance specific to this site yet available.
The disaster-risk-reduction impact of the restoration should be treated as plausible but not yet independently verified.
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