Happy World Nature Conservation Day! 🌍🌿 On tropical coasts, treasure lies beneath the waves. “Blue carbon” ecosystems like mangrove forests absorb 10 times more carbon than tropical forests, and they store it in their soils for millennia. 🌊 When coastal ecosystems are destroyed, blue carbon escapes from the ocean to the atmosphere. Marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses cover only 2 to 6% of our planet, yet they release up to 19% of the emissions from deforestation. On #WorldNatureConservationDay, you can double your impact to protect carbon-rich tropical ecosystems. Our donors have helped secure blue carbon vaults around the tropics: 🌴 Mangrove forests on Brazil’s Atlantic coast: With @Rare_org Brazil, we conserved over 188,000 acres of habitat for manatees and migrating birds. 🐢 Seagrass meadows in Guinea-Bissau: With @prcmarine, we are supporting Marine Protected Areas across 330,000 acres that shelter nurseries for endangered sea turtles. 🐆  Marshes and flooded grasslands in the Pantanal: With @Oncafari, we are protecting 326,000 acres in the world’s largest tropical wetland, which hosts the greatest density of Jaguars worldwide. Together, these projects store the CO2 equivalent of annual electricity use in 23 million U.S. homes. And this is only a fraction of the 19 billion tons of carbon our donors have helped secure around the world. 🌎 Coastal development continues to release blue carbon vaults. To address the global climate crisis, we must permanently protect blue carbon and keep it locked away. Don’t miss your chance to double your impact! 💚 Every donation to our Rainforest Climate Action Fund will be matched until we reach our $1,000,000 goal: bit.ly/wncdx26