Save Our Mangrove Swamps, Save Our Food And Facials

ICYMI, July 26 was the International Day For The Conservation Of The Mangrove Ecosystem. This day was established by Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) to underline the importance of mangrove swamps, which are more endangered than rainforests! Over 40,000sq km – one-third of swamps worldwide – was destroyed from 1980 to 2000 to make way for factory development and fish and prawn farms.

Star2 intern Suky Gill discovers four ways how the loss of mangroves has impacted our daily lives. (Search: mangrove)

This is the Sepang River estuary, an economically important area for commercial fishing. It also hosts the Rhizophora and Sonneratia mangrove species that, like all mangroves, are an important breeding ground for marine life. — Filepic