Hazard Risk Resilience Magazine Volume 1 Issue 2 | Page 30

INTRO | HIGHLIGHTS | FEATURES | PHOTO STORIES | FOCUS | INTERVIEWS | PERSPECTIVES | BIOS PHOTOS SELECTED FROM the Portraits of Resilience young people’s photo project. Portraits of Resilience is part of the Many Strong Voices Programme. It illustrates in a personal way what climate change means to young people in the Arctic and Small Island Developing States and helps communities create their own visual archive of the environmental changes they are experiencing. www.manystrongvoices.org Top and top right: Mangroves protect the country of Samoa from soil erosion and add nutrients to the soil for growing banana and taro plants. The mangrove trees also share a symbiotic relationship with the coral reefs. The coral reduce the force of the ocean waves giving the mangrove calm water, while the mangrove roots filter soil and dirt that can harm the coral reef. Oswald Tapelu & Eneri Henry Reiher