Mangrove Forests that is one of the world’s threatened major tropical environments. Threats to mangrove forests and their habitats include with
-mangrove forests have often been seen as unproductive and smelly, and so cleared to make room for agricultural land, human settlements and infrastructure such as harbors, and industrial areas. More recently, clearing for tourist developments, shrimp aquaculture, and salt farms has also taken place. This clearing is a major factor behind mangrove loss around the word.
-Destruction of coral reefs that coral reefs provide the first barrier against currents and strong waves. When they are destroyed, the stronger-than-normal waves and currents reaching the coast can undermine the fine sediment in which the mangroves grow. This can prevent seedlings from taking root and wash away nutrients essential for mangrove ecosystems.
-River changes that is the one reason of dams and irrigation reduce the amount of water reaching mangrove forests, changing the salinity level of water in the forest. If salinity becomes too high, the mangroves cannot survive. Freshwater diversions can also lead to mangroves drying out. In addition, increased erosion due to land deforestation can massively increase the amount of sediment in rivers. This can overcome the mangrove forest’s filtering ability, leading to the forest being smothered.
Whatever losses of mangrove forests are alarming rates of loss of a major coastal environment. These comparisons speak to the enormous pressures being exerted on tropical environments by anthropogenic processes. The losses of rain forests and reefs are, rightly, widely acknowledged, and a measure of concern and response to the changes has been manifested. The information compiled here supports the alarm felt by those in the research and management communities with firsthand knowledge of what is happening in the boundary between land and sea, where mangroves grow. Although mangrove forests, especially in the Americas and Asia, are among the most threatened major environments on earth, this major transformation in the coastal tropics has received scant public or political recognition. Comprehensive research aimed at assessing the status of mangroves in many countries must be undertaken, as must restoration or conservation efforts that impel public and political notice of the dimensions of the problem. Although the data reviewed in this article are in many ways incomplete, they do demonstrate the significant global losses of mangrove forests and suggest the need for conservation of this valuable coastal environment.