In addition to climate change and human impacts, ocean currents also play a major role in regulating the genetic diversity of mangrove forests on a global scale.

Our researchers went to Angola to discuss the results of project LUANDAWATERFRONT.

The implementation of the "MPA Guide" in the Portuguese Marine Protected Areas and sharing views on this form of protection were the motives for the trip of our researchers to La Rochelle in France.

Barbara Horta e Costa was part of a group of 42 scientists who published, in Science magazine, the "MPA Guide": a new tool to characterize marine protected areas according to the protection they really offer.