The word "mangrove" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of tropical tree which grows in coastal regions throughout the world. For example: "The mangrove trees' dense root systems help to protect the shoreline from storms."
Sophisticated satellite mapping has made the task easier by identifying the location and extent of mangrove ecosystems now designated as protected forestland.
He spoke with deep emotion: "If there are no mangrove forests, then the sea will have no meaning.
I have also walked in the mud at low tide, losing more than one sandal to the thick ooze of the mangrove substrate that can sink you thigh-deep in places.
Some of the flooded areas were on new developments along the riverbanks, atop mangrove forests that had once slowed the approach of seawater and could absorb excess water.
It is surrounded by mangrove swamps – home to the endangered blue crab – and white-sand beaches.
Over the last 23 years, I have wound through countless waterways that cut through the tangle of mangrove roots and branches.
But as long as the global mangrove movement keeps growing, there is still hope.
Activities include hiking, mangrove tours and snorkelling before returning to your host family in the early evening for freshly caught seafood and home-cooked curries.
The report also added that certain actions, like indiscriminate clearing of mangrove forests, had escalated the city's flood risk and lead to a three-fold increase in run-off.
"We need preventive measures, rather than a Disaster Management Cell, when we know [flooding] is an extreme event we're prone to," says Rishi Aggarwal, an environmental activist involved in urban planning and mangrove conservation.
Related: Agroforestry in India: new national policy sets the bar high The rapidly expanding shrimp-aquaculture industry, fueled by voracious consumer demand in the US, Japan, and Europe, poses one of the gravest threats to remaining mangrove forests and the wildlife and communities they support.
