Hence, conservation of mangrove forest should be realized not for advantage of something or somebody but for all mankind.
Mangrove Forest is a natural features of coastline especially lining the bank of river and stream estuaries and where ground is in muddy condition not sand.
Mangrove forest is a vegetation society regarding as a variety of high biology because there are some plants of 35 families, 53 genuses and 74 species grow at this area. Such important species are plants of the genus Rhizophora, Ceriops, Sonneratia, Avicinnia, Thus, mangrove woods play and important role on economics.
Mangrove forest areas provide as shelters and nutrient sources for aquatic animals which are 15 species of prawn; shrimps; lobsters, 22 species of fishs; mullets sea bass, fish of a genus Thynnichthys, 30 species of crabs; land crab, sea crab, 26 species of molluscs; oyster, shell of a genus Arca.
Besides, other kind of animals also be found around mangrove forest such as 88 species of birds, 35 species of mammal, 25 species of reptiles and 38 species of inects.
Counted as an productive ecosystem for all creature and mankind, mangrove forest is served as a barrier against storms so as to lessen damage occurred to coastal land and residents. In addition, mangrove forests are used as shelter and nursery ground for some species of animals as fish, crabs crustanceans and molluscs
which are the important economical aquatic animals for coastal people. From the picture shown fisherman on the boat and his fishnet for catching fish, mostly be mullets. Around the area found sea crabs, shrimps and oyster.
The significance of Mangrove forest are excessive, mangrove woods is utilized for foundation pilling and poles. Charcoal and firewood obtained from mangrove woods will be charcoal of best quality, giving high temparature with less wood ashes and uneasy to be broken.
Vegetation in mangrove forests will adapt themselves by forming a variety of root system to block the silt carried by flowing water and caused them be accumulated. Particularly, plant of a genus Sonneratia with preunatophore root sprouting out from the trunk and curved toward muddy ground to
protect water current be static where most of silt are easily accumulated. So, without mangrove forest, all silt will be carried back to the sea. Hence, conservation of mangrove forest should be realized not for advantage of something or somebody but for all mankind.
Conservation becomes a popular word of modernized people who usually say that they love nature, mountains and forests while somebody trying to take adventage from natural resources without and end. Lots of activities are the causes to decrease and deteriorate mangrove forest such as a boom in shrimp farming.
But presently mangrove forest is closed, not allow to do any activities. Therefore shrimp farming has to be made on land with the support of irrigation and other technologies to maximize yields and benefits.
Other activitie still continue to destroy mangrove ecosystem such as mining work which causes decreasing of seed's growth, expanding of communities, industrial area and roads. Roads construction is the main cause of mangrove forest destruction because it will obstruct the forest from sea. People will, then, occupy the area to do other activities after extinction of mangrove forest.
Nature is the magnificent thing, unique with its own characteristics. Human, in fact, is a part of nature, but they try to refuse. All human's creations usually be called natural resources. But such creation and utilization generally deteriorate nature. Whenever nature can't bare for excessive destruction, then nature will became to destroy human who try to separate themselves from nature.
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