Mangroves house eco-diversity
crabs crawling, birds breeding, fish feeding,
lizards lazing, worms wriggling,
growth in mud for all of the above!
Mangrove is my photo, crab from … http://www.mesa.edu.au/mangroves/mangroves05.asp
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The Mangroves in Florida are protected. One can’t get too close though as they are growing up through the gulf waters and are indeed a tangle of roots.
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There’s a bounty of Mangroves in the Florida Keys… so much that the landscape has changed over the years. They are protected. They are growing over the ancient coral – coral that was thousands of years old.
https://floridakeys.noaa.gov/plants/mangroves.html
I hadn’t realized that there are about 80 different types of mangroves!
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yes all these natural habitats/wonderlands have a broad variation .. mangroves, deserts, waterways, etc .. they are magic, thanks for the link 🙂
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Perhaps key to mangroves’ importance is their vitality. Even when everything’s functioning as it should (and usually, it isn’t) mangroves must deal with daily extremes- from submerged, to high and dry. Not to mention wildly fluctuating salinity.
No wonder they’re among the most crucial of ecosystems.
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they are indeed vital filters that need to be preserved … I have found so many more and can feel the crabs and fish bang against my legs when the tide changes as I wander about them 🙂
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We have an area back home with full.of mangroves..when it slowly died, the locals turned it into a tourist destination by putting up local restaurants and bamboo walkbridge…entrance fee is used to maintaine and rehabilitate the area…and so far it is doing pretty well now…
Thanks for sharing this kate it reminds me of that beautiful place back home..
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guess you’re missing home if things are tough … but what a joy to have such a noteworthy book launch 🙂
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What a beautiful reminder of how important the mangroves are! Home to some amazing creatures! 🙂 Thank you, Kate!!! 🙂 We must nurture the things that nurture nature/life!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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I am a member of a Danish NGO called “Grow for It” (growforit.dk) where we plant trees to become co2 neutral. We also replant mangroves in Vietnam, where they were removed for shrimp farms. A tragedy… which we hope can be reversed.
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Absolutely poetic!!
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Yes, that wonderful ecosystem, beautifully put. We have mangroves in Bunbury, one of the southern most populations, amazing plants.
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They sure are, and a fragile ecosystem too
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I love the mangroves! 😊
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No I don’t see a word prompt even if I go look under meet the bloggers. What’s the word? I’m not sure what you mean “keep it separate”…
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It’s not on aroused with my personal posts, It’s on Meet the Bloggers with all the other word prompts
https://meetthebloggersblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/05/integrity
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I live by mangroves and it’s fun to kayak through them. You can get pretty tangled up sometimes!
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Beautifully expressed
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Beautiful words expressed on mangroves and they r so good for our environment too. They are a house of eco-diversity.
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