Dr Garth Cripps leads BV's Blue Forests project – leveraging the enormous value of mangrove forests, from supporting fisheries to sequestering carbon dioxide, to protect these extraordinary ecosystems on a large scale.

Garth has worked on some of the world's pioneering REDD+ projects with Conservation International, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the World Bank. He is bringing this experience to BV's efforts to establish mangrove REDD+ projects.

Garth is a Kinship Conservation Fellow; and has worked on a wide range of other conservation projects, including with the Zoological Society of London and WWF.

He has a strong interest in conservation photography and in using this to tell the human story behind conservation.

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