Research and Technical Development programme aiming to provide guidelines for managing a mangrove environment in an oil exploration and production area.

Project date: 2011-2014
Customer: Total E&P, Total E&P Indonesia
Partnerships: IRD, CNRS-ECOLAB, University of Toulouse
Location: Indonesia
Reference: 12146

Creocean was in charge of:

• Mapping the vegetation
• Drawing up biodiversity inventories (vegetation, birds, vertebrates, marine invertebrates, fish)
• Describing natural recolonisation processes
• Comparing against the effectiveness of replanting operations
• Proposing recommendations that can be applied to many mangrove sites

Figures:

• 1000 km2 of mangrove up to 1980
• 70% destroyed between 1985 and 2000 following development of shrimp basins
• 11%, 110 km2 of this surface area, recolonized naturally by vegetation between 2000 and 2012
• 6.2 km2 replanted by man during the same period