MANGROVE MAGNIFICENT FOREST ON THE EDGE
Mangrove Forest in Coron, Palawan
ABSTRACT
Mangroves are a crossroad where oceans, freshwater, and land
realms meet. They are among the most productive and complex
ecosystems on the planet, growing under environmental
conditions that would kill ordinary plants very quickly.
Mangrove forests are particularly found in tropical and subtropical
regions within 300 of the equator. These tidal areas, such as
estuaries and marine shorelines, are frequently inundated with
salt water. Strongly in decline, mangrove forests occupy about
15.2 million hectares of tropical coast worldwide: across Africa,
Australia, Asia and America. Due to the importance of mangrove
ecosystem and the issues that might endanger the life of the
mangrove, it is necessary to protect the mangrove forest by
having a good management system. This paper contains the
review that will help us to understand the importance of the
mangrove forest and also the background of mangrove forest
management. The Province of Palawan has been selected for the
case study of mangrove forest management Therefore this paper
highlights the main importance of managing mangrove forest in
preserving the ecosystem and provided with the recommendation
in the last chapter.
INTRODUCTION
Mangrove forest is unique ecosystem. They provide valuable
ecosystem services which dominated by mangrove trees as the
primary producer interacting with aquatic fauna, social and
physical factors of the coastal environment