A story featured by ABC News Darwin explains that the Top End's mangrove forests are highly vulnerable to sea level rise.
Sea level rise is happening two times faster in northern Australia than in down south, and this could prove to be detrimental to the Top End's mangrove forests.
Jason Fowler, the NT Campaign Coordinator for KTECH, explains that mangroves are at risk of drowning because sediment was accumulating slower than the rate that the sea level was rising, meaning that mangroves could run out of mud, slowly get flooded, and drown out.
Watch the ABC News story here.
Read the ABC news article from 1 July 2019 here.
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