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Earth Day: Planting mangroves, saving lives
2008-05-11 10:51:00 The 9 o'clock sun on May 3 began to burn down on those assembled at Angke-Kapuk Nature Recreation Park (TWA Angke-Kapuk) in North Jakarta. The air was becoming hotter and hotter, but this did not wilt the high spirits of the hundreds who had come from the Regina Caely Church Community in Pantai Indah Kapuk and from the Telkom Vocational Senior High School) in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta, to listen to Murni's briefing on mangrove-planting techniques.Sri Lela Murniwati, 64, who is known simply as Ibu Murni, has been working at the TWA Angke-Kapuk since 1998, when she received a decree by then forestry minister Djamaluddin Suryohadikusumo appointing her to manage the 99-hectare coastal park.Murni's entry to reforestation is unique. One day when she visited Benoa, Bali, she saw the lush vegetation of mangroves growing there, and was inspired her to green an area.She began looking for a place in Bali that needed reforestation, but encountered several obstacles in the process. She thus sw...
Sunset Over The Mangroves
2008-05-05 15:32:00 Friday evening as Sue & I were heading off to dinner I stopped along the large Mangrove Stand on the Gulf and took a few sunset shots. The Mosquitos and No-See-Um's were think in the air and started feeding on me as soon as I was out of Sue's car. Even though I was just feet from the gulf, you can't see the water here as this Mangrove stand extends close to a mile out into the gulf. LATER Technorati Tags: RilySi,Ride it like you stole it,Motorcycle Riding,Motorcycle Commuting,FlatLand,Florida
Mud Crab (Alimango) Culture in Pond and in Mangroves
2008-04-04 08:52:00 MUDCRAB CULTURE IN POND (Scylla serrata) Among the larger species of crabs that are known to be of commercial value in the Philippines are the Neptunus pelagicus (alimasag) and the Scylla serrata . Both belong to the swimming crab family Portunidae, but the latter has been an incident product of brackish water fishpond. Occasionally, juveniles are collected ...
Mangroves Are a Critical and Threatened Marine Resource
2008-03-28 03:26:00 Clearing of mangroves in the name of land reclamation ? land to be used for shoreline development ? is a worldwide activity. According to University of Virginia and University of Georgia scientists...
By: Green Options
FAO warns of ?alarming? loss of mangroves
2008-02-04 00:00:00 Mangrove swamps have shrunk by an "alarming" rate though their disappearance is slowing with improved awareness of their importance to biodiversity, the UN food agency said on Thursday."The world has lost around 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of mangroves since 1980, equivalent to an alarming 20 percent loss of ...
Mangroves Help Indonesia Fend Off Climate Change
2007-12-07 03:07:00 Dark, foul-smelling mangrove swamps can help Indonesia's coastal communities fend off rising seas and stronger tropical storms caused by climate change, experts say.As 190 nations meet for Dec. 3-14 UN climate talks on the resort island of Bali, looking for ways to broaden a pact to slow down global warming, experts say mangroves are not getting the attention they deserve as a protective coastal barrier."Mangroves are a natural way to lessen the severity of the impact (of climate change) to coastal communities," said urban planning and climate change expert Enda Atmawidjaja."They are natural sea barriers, and they are also much cheaper then building sea walls made of concrete."Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands, is extremely vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, storm surges or more intense tropical storms linked to global warming.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Wildlife Photography
2007-10-06 16:42:00 The big white Heron bird, waiting for food in the harborBig white Heron bird catching his own food in the mangrovesNature scene with mangroves by the Atlantic shoresAnd I was lucky, he was posing so nice!
One Million Mangroves for Cebu
2007-08-21 03:32:00 MANDAUE, PHILIPPINES -- The Rotary Club of Mandaue North together with the Rotary International District 3860, Municipal Government of Liloan, DENR and the Coastal Resource Management will spearhead a mangrove reforestation and a coastal clean up in Liloan, Cebu on September 15, 2007 as part of Clean Up the Philippines Day and Clean Up the World Weekend ...
Using Mangroves As A Filtration Method
2007-07-06 00:11:00 Using mangroves as a type of filtration in a salt water system was started by Julian Sprung several years ago. He planted a mangrove into one of his aquariums just to see what would happen and to his surprise it actually started to grow and flourish. An article was produced by Julian Sprung detailing the benefits of utilising mangroves in an aquarium and many aquarists started to utilise mangroves as an additional form of nutrient export. Mangroves can be grown in various areas of the marine aquarium system. They can be grown in the sump, the refugium, the mud bed, a separate designated aquarium or even in the display aquarium if you so wish.
By: Aquarists Online
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