Policy brief Global Mangrove Watch: Supporting the implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
-
Coastal resilience
-
Coasts & Deltas
Updated version 2025
The Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) is the most complete and up-to-date global mangrove map worldwide. The online platform gives universal access to high-resolution remote sensing data and tools to catalyse action to protect and restore mangroves. It provides policy makers, mangrove practitioners, and investors near real-time information on mangrove coverage, values, and threats for every country with mangroves around the world.
The GMW platform is a free, easy-to-use, and scientifically robust tool supporting governments in moving towards accurately integrating mangrove commitments in their national plans, based on their own domestic needs and priorities.
As such the Global Mangrove Watch represents a critical tool for Ramsar Contracting Parties, in support of their national wetlands inventories, Ramsar Information Sheets (RIS) for Wetlands of International Importance, monitoring of sites’ ecological character, mangrove management and restoration, and reporting to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and other international agreements through National Reports.
The Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) is a scientific collaboration with Wetlands International, Aberystwyth University, soloEO, TNC, JAXA, NASA and a host of partners.
