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Threats to Mangroves

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Nature has blessed India with the world's largest mangrove forest- the Sundarbans. However, extreme human interference  could also be  a threat  that has to  be addressed because it's making the mangrove population shrink as their natural habitat faces encroachments. Mangrove environments are dynamic and cyclical. But human interference is tilting the balance of this ecosystem towards high mortality rates by subjecting them to  different types  of chronic stressors that inhibit the regeneration capacity of mangroves. as an example, Lenticels within the exposed portions of mangrove roots are highly  susceptible to  clogging by  fuel  and other pollutants, attacks by parasites, and prolonged flooding from artificial dykes or causeways. Mangrove forests have often been perceived as unproductive areas, and mangrove vegetation is cleared  to form  room for agricultural land, or the event of tourist tractions, or shrimp aquaculture, and salt farms. The argument being that the latter
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Ecosystem of Mangroves

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Mangrove forests, like many tidal wetlands, accumulate nutrients  like  nitrogen, phosphorus, heavy metals, and trace elements that are deposited in estuarine waters from terrestrial sources, and thus act as nutrient "sinks" for these materials. Mangroves recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other elements extracted from dead and decomposing components turning these into dissolved, particulate, and gaseous forms. The inflow and outflow of water from this habitat assists  in the  distribution  of those  materials to areas where other organisms may utilize them. The major primary production  within the  mangrove ecosystem is courtesy of the trees The detached parts of the mangrove plants are called litterfall. These include leaves, stems roots, flowers, and fruits. Most of this enters the waters as litterfall. The seeds of Aruna terminus and Rhizophora species account for 25 percent of  the whole  litterfall of the mangrove habitat The latter tall is heaviest du
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Location: Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
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MANGROVES : The Tidal Forest

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The word "Mangrove" may be a combination of the Portuguese word "Mangue" and also the English word "grove". Mangrove may be a term accustomed to describing various groups of plants adapted to a wet, saline habitat. The term might also, typically, visit a personal species. Mangrove plants are thus, salt-tolerant plants of tropical and subtropical intertidal regions of the globe. This diverse group of plants has been categorized as (i) true mangroves and (ii) mangrove associates.   Mangroves establish coastal wetlands forests at the intertidal zones of estuaries, backwaters, deltas, creeks, lagoons, marshes, and dust fields of tropical and subtropical regions of the globe. the precise regions where these plants occur are termed mangrove ecosystems. Despite these divisions, it's sometimes difficult to exactly define a mangrove species. Terms like mangrove community, mangrove ecosystem, mangrove forest, mangrove swamp, and mangal are used interchangeably t
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IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENT

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Environment belongs  to any or all , influences all and  is vital   to any or all . Whatever be the occupation or age of  an individual , he/she  are going to be   full of  environment and also he/she will affect the environment by his/her deeds.  That's  why it becomes very necessary  to create  everyone aware and conscious about the importance of environment.  There's  an internationally observed environment calendar to mark some important aspect or issue of environment,  in order that  people think, discuss,  do  campaigns and act for the  reason behind  those environmental issues. Global vs. Local Importance of Environment Environment is one subject  that's  actually global  in addition as local in nature. Issues like  heating , depletion of  ozonosphere , dwindling forests and energy resources, loss  of world  biodiversity etc. which are  visiting  affect the mankind as  an entire  are global in nature and for that  we've  to think and plan globally. Howev
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Environment - A multidisciplinary theme.

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  Everything that surrounds and affects living organisms is environment. 'Environment'  springs  from the French word Environner,  which suggests  to encircle or surround. All the biological and non-biological entities surrounding us are included in environment. As per the definition given in Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, environment includes all the physical and biological surroundings of an organism  together with  their interactions. Environment is thus defined as "the  sum  of water, air and land  and therefore the  inter-relationships that exist among them and with the  people in general , other living organisms and materials ". At  the identical  time we too have an influence on  the environment  by overuse or over-exploitation of resources or by discharge of pollutants  within the  air, water and land. The flora, fauna and micro-organisms  further   because the  man-made structures in our surroundings have a bi-directional interaction with us directly
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