WLRN Public Media reported that a Miami city commissioner dropped his controversial proposal to ban planting new mangroves in city parks after swift opposition from environmental and climate advocates. Mangroves are widely regarded as one of the best natural defenses against erosion and rising seas — their prop roots also sheltering young reef fish — a case advocates pressed as the city moves ahead with a $13 million living-shoreline retrofit at Jose Marti Park.
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