What are Mangrove Trees? | Eco Facts | One Tree Planted

Mangroves are tree families unlike any others, providing local communities and the planet with a long list of benefits.

Trees are crucial to a healthy world as they support the planet with many vital functions. Most trees cannot survive in saltwater, but mangroves have adapted to live in high salinity environments. Mangroves can live in such harsh conditions due to their unique root systems. Their roots help the trees stay upright in waterlogged soils, giving them access to oxygen and nutrients.

Mangroves also have special leaves that help them thrive in brackish water. Some mangroves filter that salt water through pores on their leaves. They even store carbon in their leaves, and when those leaves fall off and sink into the mud and silt, they become what is known as blue carbon or carbon that is stored underwater.

Unfortunately, mangroves are disappearing from coasts at a distressing rate due to farming, development, aquaculture, and sea level rise.The benefits of mangroves are immense, and as our planet rapidly changes, planting mangroves is becoming more important than ever.

At One Tree Planted we are actively supporting mangrove restoration projects throughout Asia and Latin America, including Costa Rica, The Philippines, India, Haiti and Guatemala. These fascinating trees are incredibly important both to the ecosystems they support and to the entire planet.

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[Goat_editz-gh]

Thanks for helping me with my homework

[CaptEoNinja]

Mangroves are so important, this is why I chose them to be my monthly One Tree Planted donation.

[Vejur]

Good god.

We need to expand mangrove forests around the planet.

This is just as important as planting trees.

[frankdatankdegen]

Mangroves are incredible. 🌎🌎🌏 learned more about mangroves today.

[zombieman]

They are such awesome and beatiful living things.... mangroves must be protected and saved from extinction with any cost!

[ladyselenafelicitywhite]

Thank you for sharing this 🙋🏼‍♀️
Last year I planted two hundred mangrove trees.

[harishnapajanakiraman]

Amazing. Thanks for this explanation video

[Cameo]

I really like their root system. Such a visually distinguishable tree. It gives me creative ideas :)

[ma.melinegarcia]

There is a gentleman who planted over 30000 mangrove trees in 24hrs it's now a world record

[visionaries.incorporated]

Amazing description of one of the most intelligent ecosystems in the planet 💚

[michaelbeck]

As sea levels rise and marsh grasses are less able to provide estuaries, Mangroves are the logical eventual successor / partner. Both are important for our coastal areas.

[marwaabueladl]

i have my own idea to mix mangrove plant with other plants by cutting the branch for example and put other plant so we can make use of salt water

[StacieShepp]

thanks!! I learned a lot from this video!

[AbdulRahman-gyxe]

Mangrove are the front line player and defender of the coastal belt against the natural disaster.

[enzohiroshi]

what's the backing track of this vid? great vid btw

[halnelson]

This should be the first domino to activate reforestation and increase rainfall by making biotic pomp from the ocean to the coast toward the inner lands thank to continuous vegetation

[tomsky]

I didn't know the importance of Mangrove forest before, I heard that Iraq is planting 15 millions tree.

[mr_lee]

Can you this also in our country, Philippines

[shortcaveman]

It's still annoying too hear too often that planting mangroves are bad for beaches because it will affect the local ecosystem and disrupt it. So if your property is on the beach that's eroding anyway isn't more practical than doing nothing. There probably just insurance claims are worth more than a beach property's.

[MOBSquad-xm]

I was going to donate, but you spelled “Philippines” wrong… I will not be donating a mangrove