Mangrove heroes restoring ecosystems one seedling at a time

A member of Chara Community Forest Association tending to mangrove seedlings in a nursery at Chara, Tana river county. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]

Beneath the clear morning skies in Chara, a village on the edge of the Indian Ocean in Tana River County, footprints spread across vast mudflats to create a web that leads into the mangroves.

The footprints end at an isolated spot where tens of men and women are braving the Coastal heat to fill up seedling tubes and place them in the nurseries.