Nonprofits work with Gulf Coast communities to respond to climate change
Strategies include restoring natural barriers to severe weather and adapting to sea-level rise.TROY, Mich. – For generations, Brenda Dardar Robichaux and her family have lived along the bayous of southeast Louisiana. They depend on fish, crabs, shrimp, and oysters from the Gulf of Mexico to earn a living. They have deep ties to the homeland of the United Houma Nation , a 17,000-member Native American tribe that Robichaux, a former chief, led for 13 years.
But man-made and natural hazards threaten the Houmas and other Gulf Coast communities.