What are mangroves?
these can be called trees that can grow upto the height of 120 ft that are buffers between the land and the sea and protect the land from continuous soil erosion from the tidal waves from what you just see in the pictures.The most exciting features about mangroves are
- they grow in quicksand like areas near oceans
- even if they are logged down for fuel wood they have the tendency to regenerate themselves ( just like the phoenix) when they are touched by sea water again
- mangroves line the entire coast of mumbai which goes upto some 1000 kms
- Humans as usual are at their best doing what thye have always been good at that is destroying the mangroves for persuing their acquaculture- fishy.. culture by cutting off the supply of fresh sea water to the mangroves.
As most of you might be aware off that Mumbai the proposed future Shanghai of India is built not on rock base but on these soft marshy lands which used to have mangroves at some point of time by dumping over them debris or whatever that was available to those constructors and to the Mumbai visionaries sitting in their AC offices. As you can see in the picture on the right which shows actual dumping of rubble over the green mangroves.
So what do you do when you see the same thing happening in your area- lets see
- You can just sit and watch them do what they want cause you are too busy or too disinterested to do anything.
- You can keep a close watch over their activities
- Take pictures of their doings as it is illegal to be destroying mangroves within the limits of Mumbai 20 square kms to be precise according to the order of the Mumbai high court
- Send me an email
- Or just spread the word about it cause believe it or not Baby, one day that green stretch of land will become an eyesore- high rise that doesn't even give you the sun to dry your you know what!
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