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Brazil is famously the home of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. But did you know that the country also boasts millions of hectares of ocean trees (called “mangroves”) that are even better at absorbing carbon and tackling the climate crisis? We think that’s a fact worth remembering 🙌 The Amazon jungle’s vast mangroves store twice as much carbon as its land-based forests, as well as ten times more carbon than Amazon savannahs. Incredibly, Brazil’s mangroves hold more than 8% of all carbon stocks worldwide! What this means is that protecting the Amazon’s mangrove wetlands could play a large role in slowing down climate change. Yet despite their immense benefits for people and nature, mangroves aren’t included in protected areas in Brazil, and face threats from deforestation to make way for fish farming, rising temperatures, and plastic pollution. Everything we do to raise the profile of ocean trees matters, so that Brazil’s mangroves and those in other parts of the world get the support they need to thrive!