Siné-Saloum Delta: An illustrated guide to Senegal’s remarkable mangrove estuary.

By Jeffrey Chatellier and Zoë Shribman

This informational ebook offers an illustrated overview of the mangroves of the Siné-Saloum Delta, in Senegal. With its beautiful photography and vivid narrative, this book describes the fascinating elements of this estuarine system. The authors hope this book can be a valuable resource for those who live and work in the Siné-Saloum Delta and also offer a larger global audience insight into this unique coastal system. With a foreword written by Dr. Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zoë Shribman
• Release date: Jul 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9788828359821

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Siné-Saloum Delta:

An illustrated guide to Senegal’s remarkable mangrove estuary.

Jeffrey Chatellier & Zoë Shribman

Copyright

Copyright © 2018 Jeffrey Chatellier & Zoë Shribman. All Rights Reserved.

Written by Jeffrey Chatellier & Zoë Shribman.

Foreword by Dr. Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem.

Ebook design by Zoë Shribman.

Cover by Rizaldy Yudhista Nurzirwan.

Maps and Satellite Images created by Rizaldy Yudhista Nurzirwan, courtesy of Landsat Images, USGS: February 1986, April 2007, May 2018.

Photographs by Michael Jeddah, Kasia McCormick, Dominic Wodehouse, Dr. Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, and Mangrove Action Project.

Author photographs by Angga Pratama and Eleonora Fossile.

Publishing Service: StreetLib.

Correspondence: Jeffrey Chatellier, [e-mail] & Zoë Shribman, [e-mail]

Suggested Citation: Chatellier, Jeffrey & Shribman, Zoë (2018). Siné-Saloum Delta: an illustrated guide to Senegal’s remarkable mangrove estuary. Streetlib Publishing.

To the people of the Niombaato, who welcomed me into their community.

-Jeffrey Chatellier

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following people and institutions for their support and inspiration to publish this book:

Shimon Anisfeld,

Molly Williams,

Rob Bailis,

Gus Speth,

Margaret Chatellier,

Peter Chatellier,

Kate Chatellier,

Mary Osmond,

Ibrahima Demba,

Doucoure Family,

Ibrahima Cisse,

Demba Sidibe,

Mamadou Diaw,

Aziz Diatta,

Meghan Williams,

John Leary,

Kasia Krynski,

Chris Thurlow,

Andrew Thurlow,

Forest Carbon,

Mangrove Action Project,

Peace Corps Senegal Program,

Yale Agrarian Studies Program,

Luce Fellowship at Yale,

The Montgomery Family, and

Yale Tropical Resource Institute.

- Jeffrey Chatellier

About the Authors

Jeffrey Chatellier is a conservation scientist who learned about the Siné-Saloum Delta in Senegal after having spent three years working on community reforestation and conservation projects in the region as Peace Corps volunteer, working with the Senegalese Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Nature. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and Economics from The George Washington University and a Masters’ Degree in Environmental Science from Yale University and was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Indonesia. Since 2010, he has worked as the Director of Forest Carbon, a Southeast Asia consultancy, where he has advised governments, companies, and international organizations on forest conservation, sustainability, and environmental policy. In 2017, he closed one of the largest conservation finance investments in Indonesia for a 22,000 ha peatland rainforest restoration project in South Sumatra that totaled 6.6 million