Everyone emphasizes on the importance of community participation but our experience shows that we cannot work easily with any local community because each village has different social and political conditions. Without proper analyses of these conditions, we cannot work well with the local community. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank His Excellency Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati, and Datuk Sam Mannan, Director of the Sabah Forest Department (SFD), for their special support and collaboration to our projects. Our gratitude goes to the Deputy Director Mr. Fidelis Bajau, Dr. Joseph Tangah and other staff members of SFD; Dr. Arvind Untawale of the Mangrove Society of India; Dr. Bharat Jethva of Natural Heritage Conservation Society of India; and the people of Vadgam village in Gujarat, India. We are indebted to Ms. Ratita Bebe and her team in the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agriculture Development (MELAD), and the people of Kiribati for their support and participation in our project activities. Sincere thanks also go to various individuals who have supported us for many years. Implementation of the on-going projects reported in this paper are financially supported by the Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Company Ltd., Cosmo Oil Company Ltd., and Strategic Resource and Development Area Project S-14 supported by the Ministry of Environment, Japan. For Further Reading Baba, S. (2011). Close group planting of mangroves on atolls and coral islands o f t h e P a c i f i c . ISME/GLOMIS Electronic Journal, 9 (4): 11-12. Baba, S., Nakao, Y. & Yamagami, S. (2009). Challenges of planting mangroves in Kiribati. ISME/GLOMIS Electronic Journal, 7 (5): 9-10. Baba, S., Yamagami, S. & Nakao, Y. (2010). Coastal rehabilitation project in the Maldives. ISME/GLOMIS Electronic Journal, 8 (2): 3-4. Chan, H.T. & Baba, S. (2009). Manual on Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Coastal Forests Damaged by Natural Hazards in the Asia-Pacifc Region. International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems (ISME) and International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). Suzuki, T., Mochida, Y. & Baba, S. (2009). Relationship between habitat and structure of a Rhizophora stylosa forest on Tarawa atoll, Republic of Kiribati. Mangrove Science, 6: 17-23. Tangah, J., Baba, S. & Chan, H.T. (2012). Cluster planting of mangroves along Sungai Garama, Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia. ISME-GLOMIS Electronic Journal, 10 (6): 16-18. Tangah, J., Bajau, F.E., Jilimin, W., Baba, S., Chan, H.T. & Kezuka, M. (2015). Rehabilitation of Mangroves in Sabah– The SFD/ISME Collaboration (2011- 2014). Sabah Forestry Department (SFD), International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems (ISME) and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 207 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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