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      <image:caption>The Ocean's Natural Solutions</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blue carbon is not a silver bullet</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The World's First Fish Carbon Protest?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Greening the blue</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mangrove Conservation and Tourism patterns around the globe</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Clawing back a sustainable future</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blue carbon &amp;amp; Kenya’s GHG accounting</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Biodiversity and blue forests</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mangrove Forests &amp;amp; Marine Litter</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nature-based adaptation on Java's coast</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How waste can play a part in sustainable eco-tourism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Apple's investment in Colombian mangroves</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sea creatures and their carbon sequestration potential</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blue Bonds: An Audacious Plan to Save the World’s Oceans</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blue Forests partner awarded Pew Fellowship</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Opportunities for coastal wetlands in a changing climate</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New satellite-based maps of mangrove heights</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blue Forests big or small, all deserve recognition</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Options to use Art 6 for blue carbon management</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mapping Blue Carbon hot spots in coastal mangrove forests</image:caption>
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