Peru Makes History with a Pioneering Blue Carbon Project that Will Transform Like Never Before Tumbes Mangroves

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In northern Peru, among mangrove roots, wet mud and heat of more than 30 °C, a team is taking soil samples like those looking for an underground track. The track is not gold or oil, but blue carbon, a form of carbon stored in coastal ecosystems that could become financing to protect the Los Manglares National Sanctuary of Tumbes. The idea is simple to count, but difficult to prove. If the carbon kept by mangroves is well measured, verified and e…