Save Our Mangrove!!!
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Do you know what mangrove is? What are benefits of planting and conserve it?
Mangroves are woody trees or shrubs that grow in mangrove habitats or mangal (Hogarth, 1999). The mangrove is often considered a type of biome. Mangrove habitat is exclusively tropical and tidal, and therefore having soil or sediment that is water-logged and saline or of variable salinity. Areas where mangal occurs includes estuaries and marine shorelines.
The roots of the mangrove plants stabilize the sand and mud. The mud is nutrient-rich. In fact a mangrove is one of the world's best compost systems. The roots serve to strain organic matter, like seagrass, as the tides come in. The mangrove also sheds its leaves onto the ground, to ensure nutrient, compost enriched soil. They provide a habitat for wildlife and serve as a natural buffer to strong winds and waves produced by cyclones.
The mangroves' massive root systems are efficient at dissipating wave energy. Likewise, they slow down tidal water enough that its sediment is deposited as the tide comes in, leaving all except fine particles when the tide ebbs. In this way, mangroves build their own environment.
One of the fascinating things about mangroves is the way they deal with a highly salty situation. It also can absorbs carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
Do you know this fact?
- Indonesia is home to over a quarter of the world's mangrove population. Coastal fish farmers on the Indonesian island of Java are given 4–5 hectares of land, but are required to plant mangroves on 20% of it.
- Approximately 35% of mangrove area was lost during the last several decades of the twentieth century (in countries for which sufficient data exist), which encompass about half of the area of mangroves. The United Nations Environment Program also estimated shrimp farming causes a quarter of the destruction of mangrove forests. The lost probably increase year by year because of expanding of human activities in coastline.
What happen with our mangrove and our environmental if we do not care about it???
So, let’s start to conserve mangrove!!!!
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2064681.htm
Postingan
I haven't ever seen what mangrove forest is, and where it is that is the closest from jakarta.
I just wondering one thing for not sure because I don't know much about this.. what is the relationship between the increase of sea surface with this mangrove, and will happen if the surface of sea water is increase... is it matter for the mangrove?
Faris, as I know the closest mangrove forest from Jakarta is in Kapuk,,for further information you can ask Umi.. :)
actualy I'm not sure about this but I think because mangrove forest can absorbs carbon dioxide well so global warming effect will decrease then the increase of sea surface can be prevented. As I read in some articles yes it is matter for mangrove forest.