#6 in this series will answer the above question.
“If there are no mangrove forests, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree with no roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea.”— fisherman, Trang Province, southern Thailand.
There are many reasons why mangroves matter.
Click here to discover some of them.
You probably already know that they are crucial to the world’s fish stocks, and that mangroves protect coastal places from the full destructive power of storm surges.
This fact, however, is less well known:
a tract of mangrove locks away many times more carbon in the soil than a similarly sized area of rainforest.
Mangrove forest loss ought be viewed every bit as seriously as rainforest loss.
The intertidal zone’s forests are as important as Amazonia’s!