Spotlight
The Bayou City of Houma, Louisiana Needs Your Help
New MRD Blog Post
Many small coastal communities across southeast and south-central Louisiana are relying on support from neighbors and strangers as they recover from the devastation from Hurricane Ida.
Restore the Mississippi River Delta is working to highlight some of those communities, and the opportunities to help them as they recover and rebuild in the wake of this storm.
Sub-National Spotlight with Governor John Bel Edwards | COP26
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards discusses climate mitigation and adaptation with Environmental Defense Fund at COP26.
Earned Media
Importance Of Louisiana's Wetlands
Pontchartrain Conservancy's Michael Hopkins joins Tommy to talk about the importance of Louisiana's wetlands and how they're currently doing.
'It unravels from the bottom': Scientists work to save Louisiana's shrinking wetlands
Our first stop was over Barataria Bay and an estuary on the west side of the Mississippi River -- an area that has lost a lot of coastal wetlands over the last 80 years, says NWF's Alisha Renfrow.
"If we continue at this rate, to plant all the trees we want to plant will take us 1,000 years," said Kristi Trail with the Pontchartrain Conservancy. "So we are trying to look at new innovative ways to get more trees on the ground and figure out how that land stays here for generations to come."