Mongabay: Mangroves are among the most important ecosystems in the world: they provide nurseries for fish, protect coastlines against dangerous tropical storms, mitigate marine erosion, store massive amounts of carbon, and harbor species found no-where else. However, they are vanishing at astonishing rates: experts say around 35 percent of the world's mangroves were lost in just twenty years (1990 to 2010). A new video The Beauty of Mangrove Forests highlights both the ecological importance of these vanishing...
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0130-hance-mangroves-video.html
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