by Mangrove | Aug 11, 2016 | Caribbean Basin |
I quietly walk through the mangrove forest, all around me I observe an ecosystem teeming with life. I hear the shuffling of fiddler crabs as they scurry back to their holes in the ground, I smell rotten eggs (sulphuric acid), and I view the light filtering through the...
by Mangrove | Jul 11, 2016 | Caribbean Basin |
With coral reefs in decline and NOAA calling for a larger protected area for reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Geological Survey scientists are pointing out another strategy to save reefs: First save the mangroves. Mangrove trees’ thickets of stilt-like roots...
