Missing mangroves. (need protect mangroves to support the ecosystem)

World Watch | March 1, 1993| | Copyright

On the island of Negros in the Philippine archipelago, Wilson Vailoces has been planting mangrove trees since the early 1980s. His neighbors made fun of him at first. They said the mangroves looked funny, like little trees perched on stilts in the mud and brine. They didn't see any use in his back-breaking labor to revive the murky mangrove swamps that had once lined their tropical coast.

Vailoces, however, was resolute. In his 50 some years, he had watched people cut down the mangroves and dynamite the coral reefs offshore, and he had seen his fish catch fall. For ...

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