mangrove

Furry friends are welcome on the grounds surrounding the visitor center, where you’ll find mangroves and vistas of several small keys.

Coastal mangrove forests are carbon storage powerhouses, tucking away vast amounts of organic matter among their submerged, tangled root webs.

As sea levels have slowly risen over the last 8,000 years, mangroves have kept pace, climbing atop sediment ported in from rivers or migrating inland.

In the past half-century, more than a quarter of the world’s mangroves have been destroyed — drained for development, converted for shrimp farms, poisoned by fertilizer and drowned by dammed-up streams.

Activists who seek to protect the mangroves have found themselves the target of harassment, lawsuits and physical violence.

At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.

It is on the edge of the mangrove swamp, and is reached by a sort of causeway of turf.

The characteristic trees of the coast regions are the mangrove and coco-nut palm.

Tannin is also important and is employed to some extent in the Philippines, being generally obtained from the mangrove tan barks.

We passed vast numbers of the Florida cormorants—a small species, which breeds in the mangrove islets.