Coastal tidal mangrove swamp ecoregion on West African coast
Guinean mangroves
mangroves in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal
Map of the Guinean mangroves
Ecology
Realm
Afrotropical
Biome
mangrove
Borders
Eastern Guinean forests
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic,
Western Guinean lowland forests
Geography
Area
22,165 km2 (8,558 sq mi)
Countries
List
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Conservation
Conservation status
Vulnerable
Protected
5,289 km2 (24%)[1]
gathering oysters in the Sine-Saloum mangroves, Senegal.
The Guinean mangroves (French: Mangroves guinéennes, Portuguese: Mangais guineenses) are a coastal ecoregion of mangrove swamps in rivers and estuaries near the ocean of West Africa from Senegal to Sierra Leone.
^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
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