{"id":215212,"date":"2022-11-21T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=215212"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:57:52","slug":"answered-highlight-the-economic-and-environmental-significance-of-mangroves-what-are-the-threats-facing-mangroves-in-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-highlight-the-economic-and-environmental-significance-of-mangroves-what-are-the-threats-facing-mangroves-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Highlight the economic and environmental significance of Mangroves. What are the threats facing Mangroves in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"616\"><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Contextual introduction.<br \/>\n<strong>Body:\u00a0<\/strong>Explain some economic and environmental significance of Mangroves. Also write some threats faced by Mangroves in India.<strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Write a way forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Mangroves are salt-tolerant vegetation that grows in intertidal regions of rivers and estuaries. They are referred to as <strong>\u2018tidal forests\u2019<\/strong> and belong to the category of<strong> \u2018tropical wetland rainforest ecosystem\u2019<\/strong>. India has a total mangrove cover of 4,992 sq km. <strong>West Bengal<\/strong>\u00a0has 42.45% of India&#8217;s mangrove cover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economic significance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mangroves are among the most <strong>productive terrestrial ecosystems<\/strong> and are a natural, renewable resource. For instance, Sundarbans in the Gangetic delta supports around 30 plant species of mangroves.<\/li>\n<li>Mangroves provide <strong>ecological niches<\/strong> for a wide variety of organisms. They serve as breeding, feeding and nursery grounds for fisheries and provide timber and wood for fuel.<\/li>\n<li>They provide <strong>numerous employment opportunities<\/strong> to local communities and augment their livelihoods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Environmental significance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mangroves show edge effect, which means that they have large <strong>species diversity<\/strong> in comparison to marine or terrestrial ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>Mangrove forests act as <strong>water filters and purifiers<\/strong> as well. Hence protecting the coastal ecology including coral reefs. They supply timber, fire wood, medicinal plants and edible plants to local people.<\/li>\n<li>Mangroves act as <strong>shock absorbers<\/strong>. They reduce high tides and waves and protect shorelines from erosion and also minimise disasters due to cyclones and tsunami.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Threats facing Mangroves in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sea level rise and coastal erosion:\u00a0<\/strong>Due to global warming, the sea levels are continuously rising. The rising sea levels have flooded large areas of mangrove forests. This has resulted in their depletion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Invasion by alien species: <\/strong>This has led to imbalance in ecological structure, resulting in their depletion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clearing:<\/strong>Large tracts of mangrove forests have been cleared to make room for agricultural land, human settlements, industrial areas, shrimp aquaculture etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Damming of rivers:\u00a0<\/strong>Dams built over the river courses <strong>reduce the amount of water<\/strong> and sediments reaching mangrove forests, altering their salinity level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pollution:\u00a0<\/strong>Mangroves also face severe threats due to fertilisers, pesticides, discharge of domestic sewage and industrial effluents carried down by the river systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate change:<\/strong>Unusually low rainfall and very high sea surface and air temperatures caused severe threats to the survival of mangrove forests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Systematic\u00a0and\u00a0periodic environmental monitoring\u00a0of existing mangroves is need of the hour. <strong>Community participation<\/strong>\u00a0for conservation and management should be promoted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction:\u00a0Contextual introduction. Body:\u00a0Explain some economic and environmental significance of Mangroves. Also write some threats faced by Mangroves in India.Conclusion: Write a way forward. Mangroves are salt-tolerant vegetation that grows in intertidal regions of rivers and estuaries. They are referred to as \u2018tidal forests\u2019 and belong to the category of \u2018tropical wetland rainforest ecosystem\u2019. India has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-highlight-the-economic-and-environmental-significance-of-mangroves-what-are-the-threats-facing-mangroves-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] Highlight the economic and environmental significance of Mangroves. 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