In a mangrove forest like this I have no idea.

The trees, mangrove trees, are filled with fireflies communicating with light.

And this is the outrageous and beautiful flower of the mangrove palm.

For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.

The first part of the claim is for seed reduction due to an estimated 35 per cent decrease in mangrove cover in the Nayband Bay mangrove forest, caused by oil spills resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Mangrove forests, in addition to providing vital coastal defences, were also a cornerstone of the region's economy.

I was there because I was actually modeling the mangrove portion for a carbon credit program, under the U.N.

And as I was modeling this mangrove swamp, I was thinking to myself, How do you put a box around this?

Other significant environmental problems include land degradation caused by deforestation and inappropriate agricultural practices, water loss, and mangrove clearance for aquaculture.

IUCN was currently working with a wide range of coastal populations in tsunami affected countries through a planned 47 million programme to restore and conserve mangrove ecosystems.

Parties reported that climate change would affect fishery resources by destroying breeding and nursery areas, such as mangrove forests and coral reefs, and by affecting the availability of nutrients.

The second project, for which Saudi Arabia seeks compensation in the amount of USD 295,004,469, is to construct 42.1 square kilometres of new salt marshes and mangrove areas within the above mentioned preserves.

Re establishment with mangrove and other suitable species can offer significant benefits, but needs to form part of a realistic national forest plan that is developed within an integrated framework for management of coastal areas.

Iran states that the reduction, equivalent to a decrease of 166.3 hectares of mangrove area, resulted in a loss of breeding ground for various species as well as a nursery ground for about 6,000,000 fish larvae.

And if you see the benefits of the mangrove in terms of the storm protection and cyclone protection that you get and in terms of the fisheries, the fish nurseries, that provide fish for the poor, that answer is more like 11,000.

The evidence provided by Iran to support its claim that there was a reduction in mangrove cover includes remote sensing evaluation of cover change, analysis of tree enzyme changes, benthic community analysis and chemical analysis of total petroleum hydrocarbons ( TPH ) and heavy metals.

The amount claimed is to compensate for seed reduction as a result of the loss of mangrove cover (USD 23,000,000) damage to coral reefs (USD 17,000,000) reduction in fisheries resources (USD 25,000,000) and the expenses of programmes for the rehabilitation of fisheries resources (USD 35,000,000).

For example, Paraguay, which until 2004 had one of the world s highest rates of deforestation, has reduced rates in its eastern region by 85 . And in Fiji, no take zones and better management of marine areas has increased species like mangrove lobsters by 250 per year.

More specifically, many reporting Parties identified the following negative impacts erosion and setback of coastlines, increase in salinity in estuaries and wetlands, degradation of mangrove ecosystem, saltwater intrusion into aquifers, beach and land losses, decrease in productivity of coastal fisheries and devastating effects on species of coral.

The secretariat also raised awareness about the fact that unsustainable management of forests causes serious and adverse long term consequences, pointing out the importance of mangrove forests for many tropical coastlines and highlighting, in particular, their protective function in helping to dissipate the energy of incoming waves.

Convinced that the Japanese would attack from the sea, the British defenses were encased in impenetrable concrete bunkers, with fixed artillery that could fire only to the south. So when the Japanese emerged from the jungle and mangrove swamps of the Malay Peninsula in the north, the British were powerless to stop them.

And here's an example from Thailand where we found that, because the value of a mangrove is not that much it's about 600 over the life of nine years that this has been measured compared to its value as a shrimp farm, which is more like 9,600, there has been a gradual trend to deplete the mangroves and convert them to shrimp farms.