we're just here to evaluate the situation but we'll be back with activists from the canadian ngo adam a trying to develop alternatives to the traditional salt producing methods far too much a cylinder needs to burn three kilos of wood to get one kilo of salt and among great forests on the coast are disappearing. why does it look like the brine in this basin has to cook for twenty four hours to do that the wood has to be constantly replenished you can see how much would they use but these are only dry branches the thick tree trunks they used to have no longer exist. but salt making it's not the only threat to the forest. it's all been eaten away it's terrible. cows are responsible nomadic cattle herders have set up camp here. in the dry season there is not enough for their animals to eat inland so they've come to the coast. and the herds came from over fifty kilometers away to reach the coast. that's how it works with pastoral farming. and then they graze on the mangroves. the animals love the leaves because of all the salt in them. a few hundred metres further along lies the port of c