New Mangrove Living Lab result from collaboration with TU Delft

In Vietnam, the newly established Mangrove Living Lab has been put into operation. Here, ideas for restoring mangrove forests to protect the Mekong Delta from water are being tested. Today Minister Mark Harbers of Infrastructure and Water Management visited the lab, which is a result of years of cooperation in education and research between TU Delft and Thuy Loi University in Hanoi. With sea level rise, land subsidence and weather extremes such as severe storms, mangroves in the Mekong Delta play an important role. They are a natural coastal protector. Due to deforestation, environmental pollution and population growth, the forests became severely depleted and degraded. And that results in coastal erosion.