Features and benefits of mangroves

It is never hard traveling or mangroves? mangrove forest also called mangrove forests that grow in brackish water located in Batam City centere and influenced by the tides of sea water. This forest used to grow in places where sedimentation and accumulation of organic matter and protected bays waves of the assault or around the mouth of the river, where the water slows and precipitate sludge brought from upstream to downstream.


Mangrove ecosystems are unique and distinctive, so sedimentation resulting in reducing soil erosion, high soil salinity and tidal flooding experienced by seawater, some types of plants that survive in this kind place, and this forest type are more typical of the mangrove itself, as it has passed through the process of adaptation and evolution are launching long.

Benefits of Forests for Life 

Features and benefits of mangrove forests
A key function of Iyalah mangrove forests to protect the coast from abrasion of the sea or water erosion, and reducing the large waves, even during the tsunami. In Japan, as in lakkukan an effort to reduce the impact of the tsunami threat is to install the green belt or green belt of mangrove forests or mangroves. Sendiir while in Indonesia, approximately 28 regions in Indonesia is prone to tsunamis, for many mangroves have become fish ponds, palm oil plantations and other functions through a very memperhatinkan the condition of forests mangroves in Indonesia.

But over the past 10 years since its creation mangrove Management Center (BPHM), the use of mangroves is growing and getting better. Until now mangroves have provided bannyak benefits than wood or other terms that are commonly known as non-timber forest products (NTFPs), including mangroves; such as food, drinks, and colorants and cosmetics.

So far I BPHM Region has developed a number of plant species in the mangrove forests to be used as the following distribution:

• Food products and to substitute the fruit flour or rice cake Bruguiera gymnorrhiza Lindur.
• Beverage ingredients such as syrups, dodol outside fruit and pudding or Sonneratia of pidada.
• Savonnier pidada Sonneratia fruit or caseolaris materials.
• Cake flour lights fruit material or Avicennia sp.
• Cosmetic Ingredients (cold) nyirih granatum peeling fruit or Xylocarpus.
• Raw materials, such as alcohol, vinegar, brown sugar or palm fruits nipa Nipah.
• Dye the bark clothes calender or Rhizophora mucronata, Bruguiera Lindur or gymnorrhiza and Mentigi or Ceriops Tagal.

Hall of Mangrove Forest Management Area I at this time have been actively pursuing the formation of several provinces in the region (19 provinces of Indonesia - beyond the islands of Borneo and Sumatra) on the benefits of non-wood products Forest (NWFP) Mangroves as food, drinks, soaps and dyes maintain because much better than destructive.

Features and benefits of mangroves