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

In the southern part of the delta lies the Sundarban, the world's largest mangrove forest.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

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.

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.

Slow lorises range across tropical and subtropical regions and are found in primary and secondary rainforests, as well as bamboo groves and mangrove forests.

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.

The east coast has many islets, bays and coral reefs, and is covered with mangrove forest extending up to 2 km wide before giving way to nipah forest.

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.

Non human primates live in a diverse number of forested habitats in the tropical latitudes of Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and South America, including rainforests, mangrove forests, and montane forests.

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.

Initiatives include improving water supply management in and around Tarawa coastal management protection measures such as mangrove re plantation and protection of public infrastructure strengthening laws to reduce coastal erosion and population settlement planning to reduce personal risks.

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 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.

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.